President Biden ought to have included Donald Trump in his checklist of Christmas pardons.
He might have slipped it in — or any individual might have sneaked it on the teleprompter — when he introduced the federal pardon of individuals convicted of the use or possession of marijuana on the eve of Christmas Eve.
If it blew up in his face, the White House might merely deny he meant it, or say he was confused, or they may simply ignore it prefer it was a Chinese spy balloon.
Biden might have labored the Trump pardon into his pardon assertion when he opened his remarks by saying, “America was founded on the principle of equal justice under the law.”
Trump is dealing with a slew of federal indictments accusing him of trying to overthrow the outcomes of the 2020 election.
Although he isn’t charged with the Jan. 6 “insurrection,” the Colorado state Supreme Court, all Democrats, stated in a 4-to-3 vote that he was responsible of it anyway and kicked him off the upcoming state presidential poll. The U.S. Supreme Court is anticipated to overturn the Colorado courtroom.
Meanwhile, there is no such thing as a fact to the report that the 4 judges who voted towards Trump are in line to be named to the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as the Democrats increase it and pack it from 9 to 13 members.
Biden’s Trump pardon remarks would have added to his stature as an all-wise, compassionate and forgiving statesman, not like the person he was pardoning who would carry again the firing squad.
It would even have answered criticism that Biden has politicized and weaponized the U.S. Department of Justice and its two tiers of justice in America, one to maintain Hunter Biden out of jail and two to place Donald Trump in.
Or he might have waited till later in his pardon assertion when he stated, “Elected officers on either side of the aisle, religion healers, civil rights activists, and legislation enforcement leaders agree that our legal justice system can and may replicate this core worth that makes our communities safer and stronger.
“That is why today I am announcing additional steps I am taking to make the promise of equal justice a reality.”
It was at this level Biden might have shocked the nation by displaying confidence and compassion — and helped his feeble re-election marketing campaign — by saying magnanimously one thing I imagined like:
“So, my fellow Americans, I’ve additionally determined to pardon Donald Trump of all federal prices and indictments towards him though I imagine he’s an insurrectionist creep undeserving of the workplace of president.
“I do that with full confidence that I, like I stated 4 years in the past, will clobber him within the election or, like my father used to say on the kitchen desk, give him a knuckle sandwich behind the highschool health club. That’s not a joke.
“I believe in a fair fight and paying your fair share. That’s who we are as Americans. I’m not kidding. This is America and there is nothing we can’t do if we do it together, including re-electing me, saving our democracy and packing the Supreme Court.”
Of course, he didn’t say this, but when he listened to me, he would have.
The principal drawback in granting Trump a pardon would have been the distinct risk that Trump wouldn’t have taken it, however as a substitute would have attacked Biden for going gentle and senile in providing it within the first place. “I am not going to accept a pardon from that creep,” Trump would have stated.
In addition, he may need added that the best way the Republicans and their Congressional impeachment inquiry investigation linking Joe and Hunter Biden to Chinese payoff cash goes, Joe Biden would possibly want a pardon from a re-elected Trump and never the opposite manner round.
There is precedent for one president pardoning one other. President Gerald Ford pardoned Watergate scandalized President Richard Nixon, who he succeeded in 1974.
Forget inflation, hovering grocery costs, excessive gasoline and vitality prices, hovering unlawful immigration, crime, medication and conflict.
The query within the 2024 presidential marketing campaign is who’s going to pardon whom?
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”