Outgoing President Joe Biden’s last-minute move to pardon Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and members and witnesses of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 protests at the Capitol will likely face legal challenges, Fred Fleitz, a senior fellow at the America First Policy Institute, said on Newsmax Monday.
“I don’t understand how an individual can be pardoned for something that he hasn’t been charged for yet,” Fleitz, a former National Security Council chief of staff for the first Trump administration and CIA analyst, commented after news broke about Biden’s pardon.
Biden, in the hours before President-elect Donald Trump takes his oath of office, said he issued his pardons to guard against “revenge” by the incoming administration, and said the Jan. 6 committee and witnesses “do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions.”
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