Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Biden makes SHOCK PARDONS in FINAL HOUR

Episode Date: January 20, 2025

With just hours to go in his administration, President Biden has made history and his fellow Americans proud by issuing preemptive pardons to the American heros who served on the Jan6 Committee and led the impeachment of Trump, including Liz Cheney and Senator Adam Schiff, along with General Mark Tilley and Dr. Anthony Fauci, heroes all. Michael Popok reports on the protective shield that Biden used to protect those who are at the top of Trump and MAGA’s retribution list, with possibly more to come. Thanks to Qualia! Head to https://qualialife.com/legalaf and use code LEGALAF at checkout for 15% off your purchase of Qualia's products. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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He's just issued the preemptive pardons we've been calling for to protect many of those Americans and patriots who served on the Gen 6 committee and General Mark Milley and Dr. Anthony Fauci have all been given the protective shield of Joe Biden and our thanks as Americans. I'm Michael Popock. You're on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF and as expected, Joe Biden and his administration has decided to use the incredible robust constitutionally authorized pardon power to preemptively pardon not people who committed any crimes, but who did their civic duty as patriots to protect America.

And all the thing is they got on the wrong side of Donald Trump because Donald Trump got on the wrong side of criminal law and on the wrong side of trying to overthrow our democracy. And on the wrong side of trying to overthrow our democracy, and people stood in that path. And we've got the entirety of the Gen 6 committee, from Liz Cheney to Benny Thompson to Jamie Raskin to Kinziger and the rest. Adam Schiff also receiving, Senator Adam Schiff also receiving a preemptive pardon. Now these people who have gotten the pardon, even though some of them, like Schiff said, they didn't really want to get that pardon,

are doing it for a number of, are accepting it for a number of reasons. Same reason Joe Biden is giving the protective shield of these particular pardons. First of all, we know we have a retribution and chief administration about to come into office. I mean, Pam Bondi was being confirmed as attorney general while Ivan Raskin, a self-proclaimed minister of retribution, was sitting in the audience for MAGA.

Donald Trump has said he's going to appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the prosecutors, to go after those who tried to bring him to justice, although relatively unsuccessfully, at least in the federal criminal context. So he's already said, Trump out loud, that in a combination of Pam Bondi, who's going to get confirmed as the attorney general, and Cash Patel, who's probably going to get confirmed as FBI director at the rate these confirmation hearings are going, he's going to use these two to got a clean house from a MAGA perspective, meaning going after those that Donald Trump believes tried to weaponize the Department of Justice

or the FBI, what all they were doing was their job. If Donald Trump hadn't committed crimes, hadn't tried to blow through the guardrails of our democracy, he wouldn't have been in this mess, right? And so knowing that and knowing how MAGA and the Federalists feel about the president, they believe, and this is a philosophical major distinction and difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats believe that even though the Department of Justice and the Attorney General and the FBI are part of the executive branch, that ever since at least Richard Nixon, it's a good idea to put them behind an independent barrier and let them exercise their judgment independently, not meet regularly with the president the way that Hoover did with Nixon

or the way his Attorney General did before he went to jail in Watergate, but rather have a measure of separation. That's why Merrick Garland and his predecessors never met with the presidents at the time, never went through their agenda, never had weekly lunch meetings with them, never went through the cases and the targets they're thinking about pursuing. And we as Democrats think that's a good thing. Federalists and MAGA think that's a bad thing. This is a binary switches on, switches off distinction between the Democrats and the Republicans. The Republicans believe that there should be a unitary president, that the president

and the executive branch should hold all the power embodied in one person occupying the office of the president, and that the president is actually, in their view, using their words, the top prosecutor in America, not the Department of Justice's attorney general. That that's what the president is supposed to do. And that the attorney general must directly report to the president as the FBI director should and they should meet regularly and go through their case lists. As the, you know, this was a law firm where I came out of, the world I came out of,

the president is the senior managing partner of the firm. And these junior partners need to meet regularly with him, like my team used to, to go over cases and case lists. That's not the way we see it as Democrats, for obvious reasons, because we envisioned the day when we'd have a potential felon as president who would try to misuse power, abuse power, and the like. Now, the people that have received these protective pardons are, let's just put it

this way, thankful. Here's what President Biden had to say in issuing these protective pardons, putting these people behind that shield. Quote, I believe in the rule of law and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics, but these are exceptional circumstances. I cannot in good conscience, President Biden said, do nothing. Baseless and politically motivated investigations

wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. President Biden continued, even when individuals have done nothing wrong and in fact have done the right thing and will ultimately be exonerated by history, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances, right? And the, those that were, that's on the Biden side, on the acceptance side,

um, you know, against the threats of Donald Trump saying he's going to appoint a real special prosecutor to go after Joe Biden and his family. I mean, this is the exact same rationale that Joe Biden used to grant a pardon to his son Hunter under a lot of apparently political flack and expense. Some commentators, even moderates, said at the time that it's an indelible stain on Joe Biden's legacy because he said he wouldn't, but then he would. He also said he was gonna run for office and then he didn't. But I think times, they are a-changing.

And after meeting with Trump and seeing that Trump had appointed people, nominated people like Cash Patel for FBI, Tulsi Gabbard for intelligence, Pam Bondi, Locker Up Bondi for Department of Justice. There's no way he was gonna leave his son in harm's way. I would have thought, then I would have really doubted his mental capacity if he had not protected Hunter Biden.

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Here's what Mark Milley, now let's remember General Mark Milley was not just a run-of-the-mill general. He was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, right? He's a four-star general, served this country well. He also opposed Donald Trump in a number of ways. You know, he said it was wrong for Donald Trump to use the military to clear the Lafayette Park behind the White House for his walk to church with his upside down Bible. And he would never allow the military to be used as a prop on civilian soil ever again. He also said that during Jan 6, Donald Trump's dereliction of duty being in the dining room doing nothing fiddling while Washington

burned was a dereliction of duty and showed cowardice. This got on the wrong side of Donald Trump as you could imagine and Donald he's also linked Mark Milley by the way to Mar-a-Lago and the obstruction of justice espionage case because it is mark milley's article in the new yorker magazine in which he said that he made phone calls to the chinese his chinese counterparts to tell him that he would not allow donald trump to start world war three that he would put his hand between donald trump's finger and the nuclear button donald trump didn't like that and then that's when donald trump pulled out all sorts of war maps and Iranian war plans and everything else, pulled it out in front of a person with no classified, no top secret

classification and started saying, it wasn't me, it was Mark Milley. He was trying to start those wars. See, look at this map. Look at these top secret documents I shouldn't be showing you. That's all that was recorded by reporters and others that were in the room with Donald Trump, and that helped launch the Mar-a-Lago investigation. Here's what Mark Milley had to say about accepting the pardon. He said, after 43 years of faithful service in uniform to our nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution

for perceived slights, I do not want to put my family, my friends, and those with whom I served through the resulting distraction, expense, and anxiety." Dr. Fauci, Anthony Fauci, who just as an aside, a popack aside, I met Anthony Fauci when I was in college because he was the brain to try to fight the scourge of AIDS in America. I was a resident assistant, an RA, at NYU, and we invited Dr. Fauci to give a speech and a lecture at NYU in the student center about AIDS, which was, you know, this is in the 80s. And I got to meet him, always kept an eye on Dr. Fauci after that because he was such an honorable person, such an amazing humanitarian and doctor. I always kept my eye on him.

Here's what Dr. Fauci had to say. There is absolutely no basis for these threats, he said. Let me be perfectly clear. I have committed no crime and there are no possible grounds for any allegation or threat of criminal investigation or prosecution of me. The fact is, however, that their mere articulation of these baseless threats and the potential that they will be acted upon create immeasurable

and intolerable distress for me and my family. Now, Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, former representative, was on the Jan 6 committee who retired. You know, he, I know he was of the position that he doesn't want to accept the pardon. You know, he said, I'm guilty of nothing besides bringing the truth to the American people because for 187 minutes he sat there in the in the dining room of the White House and did absolutely nothing and showed how weak and scared he truly is. So no, I don't want it.

And Adam Schiff said similarly before the pardons were issued that it would be wrong precedent to send, who led the prosecutions from the Senate side. However, it's unclear whether they have to accept it. When you read the Constitution and the presidential powers, it's unclear whether they have to accept it. You know, when you read the Constitution and the presidential powers It's not like they have to accept it. Oh I declined the pardon. I mean, I guess they could challenge it

And if they get you know of Kinzinger and and Schiff get prosecuted, I guess they could You know somebody could say well you waved it. I don't think they're gonna wave it. I don't think they should wave it. I think they should accept the largest and the protective shield of Joe Biden and the thanks of the American people and of history for doing what they did. That's my position here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF.

And we got some more time on the clock. And by the time I cut this hot take, it's just hours before the inauguration. But frankly, there's still another few hours left for Joe Biden to do a last gasp of pardons. We're still holding out hope for Michael Cohen, because Lord knows he's in harm's way, and deserves the pardon. He's testified successfully and admirably turned that leaf and may a culpa against Donald Trump and a

number of criminal prosecutions and the Attorney General case in New York. But let's see what Joe Biden does in the remaining days. But the headline here, pardons, preemptive pardons, as we called for, as we expected on the Midas Touch Network, an illegal IF by Joe Biden, all of the Jan 6 committee, Mark Milley and Anthony Fauci included. Thanks for being here. Puppies and Kittens on inauguration day. That's what we're doing here besides our hot takes here on the Midas Touch Network. That's our live feed today. Pardon me. And I'll be doing hot takes throughout the day and throughout the week right here on the Midas Touch Network at the intersection of law and politics and other things. Tuesday night, 8 p.m. Eastern Time, PO-POK Live. I'm unbridled, I'm unchained, I'm unfiltered. I don't pull punches, I'm

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