Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Biden STICKS IT to Trump with LAST-MINUTE Move

Episode Date: December 14, 2024

President Biden just stuck it to MAGA and showed mercy and kindness to 1500 Americans at the same time, by issuing a record-setting 1500 clemency petitions and 39 pardons in a single day. Popok explains the difference, and why this may indicate that President Biden is prepared to give blanket pardons to those that protected democracy against Trump in 2020 and need protection from retribution now. Levels is offering my listeners an additional 2 free months of the Levels annual Membership when you use my link, https://levels.link/LEGALAF 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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benefit 1500 families in America. The single greatest grant of clemency and pardons in history all happened in the last several hours. And I'm here for it. So are you on the Midas Touch Network and Legal AF. Let's talk about what just happened. Joe Biden, fresh off of pardoning Hunter Biden, has decided to continue in record-setting pace to benefit America and Americans in an act of kindness and mercy that only the President of the United States and his pardon power can do. And this is to protect them and protect them from retribution of Donald Trump and abuses of power that we know are coming when he gets into office.

So now we've got 1500 Americans have had their sentences commuted, meaning the conviction stays on the books, but they're getting let out of home confinement and jail upon the signing of this new proclamation. Those are for people that have been rehabilitated, who have had non-violent crime or not threats to society, and that will strengthen communities and their families by letting them out early. That's the commutation part. That's the big number, 1,500. By comparison, the next largest exercise

of the commutation power and the clemency power by a president was Barack Obama when he did 330. This is almost five times as much. You know, kudos to Joe Biden. I'm going to read you from his statement in a moment. On the pardon side, which is a complete exoneration, and the felony and the misdemeanors get wiped off the books, Joe Biden and his team have gotten together and they have right now, they're not done yet, have parted 39 Americans, primarily who have been convicted for having the, of committing

those quote unquote crimes of being gay in the military or nonviolent marijuana use. Joe Biden has always, and he said this publicly, he always thought that he had done a disservice back in 1994 when he sided with Bill Clinton and passed a crime bill that put a lot of people who committed low-level drug use crimes and put them in jail for a long, long time, including within the black and brown community. And this is one of his ways to fix it on the way out. So the headline is, and I know the MAGA is going to go crazy, this will explode their heads, 1500 quote unquote criminals, this will be the MAGA version, are getting off easy because of Joe Biden. That is not the way to look at this. The

way to look at this is that this is a proper exercise of mercy that only a president can give and there are more to come. There are more to come. I think this is a great sign for what I've been calling for, which is more pardons and more clemency and not less, especially on the pardon power, to protect those that protected democracy, prosecutors, judges, lawmakers, FBI investigators, attorneys general who went after Donald Trump appropriately after 2020 and his reign of terror and now are on the hit list for Donald Trump is FBI potential director Cash Patel, Pam Bondi is attorney general and the rest. They need pardon

protection too. Let's talk about what Joe Biden's statement to the public is in the one along with this extraordinary historic commutation of 1500 sentences for Americans. He said, as president, I have the great privilege of extending mercy to people who have demonstrated remorse and rehabilitation, restoring opportunity for Americans to participate in daily life and contribute to their communities and taking steps to remove sentencing disparities for nonviolent offenders, especially those convicted of drug offenses. That's you know, if you were convicted of crack you went away for life. If you were convicted of cocaine

you went away for 10 years or five years. Black and brown community disproportionately impacted by that distinction in the law from the 1990s. for 10 years or five years. Black and brown community disproportionately impacted by that distinction in the law from the 1990s. Now, let's get past that. I'm not done. And apparently, Joe Biden's team isn't done either, because they've let it be known they're continuing to evaluate appropriate use of Joe Biden's clemency

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There are people that have been named by Donald Trump and Cash Patel and other in MAGA world as enemies of the people and enemies of the state that need to be protected by Joe Biden. Michael Cohen on this network needs to be protected by Joe Biden and be given a pardon. Liz Cheney, the Jan 6 committee, Senator Adam Schiff, the Biden family, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Chris Wray now, the outgoing FBI director, anybody that's ever been a special counsel against Donald Trump like Jack Smith and his team, the FBI and their team, attorneys general like Letitia James in New York, prosecutors like Alvin Bragg. And again, not because they did anything wrong, okay?

It's because it doesn't matter whether they did anything wrong and all they were doing was their job and their civic duty and their public service to follow the evidence where it leads against a criminal president. We all know he was a criminal president, he's a criminal president-elect, and he will be a criminal president again. But these people need protection. Now whether they want to accept the pardon or not, that's up to them. You can always reject a pardon and say thanks, but no thanks. I think there should be another Excel spreadsheet

pardons that here that Joe Biden's office led by his chief of staff and his White House counsel should be preparing. They're the ones that are vetting this issue and they should be bringing it to Joe Biden on a daily basis. There's two things I want to see Joe Biden focus on. I want to use his pardon power, his clemency power, and those things around his executive power, his executive orders that he can still do to strengthen his policies and protect them from the onslaught of Donald Trump.

His team has no other role for me and no other goal for me, top to bottom, than to review all of his executive orders and all of the laws that he's changed and made and make sure he takes whatever steps are necessary to thwart Donald Trump when he returns to office. I'll give you another example. There are 40 or more people on death row that are that I think they're in an Indiana federal penitentiary. Donald Trump will execute all of them. He executed, I don't know, 13 in the first six months when he took office the last time

after the federal death penalty hadn't been exercised in over 20 years. He's going to do it again. Within a year, those 40 people are going to be dead. Now, I'm not here to debate what they did. I'm just talking about federal death penalty. And that is a place where Joe Biden, showing act of mercy, can commute those sentences, not let them out of jail,

commute those sentences to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, and get them off the death watch, which has its own brand of cruel and unusual punishment. These people have been sort of under the guillotine's knife or edge for the last, you know, four, five, 10 years. And so that's something he can do. He can close detention centers that are being,

that would be used for the roundup of undocumented. He can make it harder for Donald Trump to do those things. There's lots of things he can do. I just did a hot take about Joe Biden shutting down the Judges Act that would have given Donald Trump on day one 65 new federal judge vacancies to fill. The Republicans have been playing unfair. They have denied Joe Biden the right to fill his vacancies. They had to make a horse trade in the Senate

to kind of give up on five or six judges, including appellate court judges, in order to get the last 10 or 15 appointed. They didn't pass the bill, the law that would establish the 65 until they waited to see if Donald Trump was gonna win. And so forget it. As we said, it's time for sharp elbows.

It's time that we go to the lengths and depths of the Republicans within the rules. But we gotta do the right thing, gotta protect Americans. I love this exercise of mercy and the clemency and pardon power by Joe Biden. And there's lots more coming. Follow it here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Legal AF, you can come over also to our new Legal AF YouTube channel we're doing in collaboration with the Midas Touch Network,

where I'm the chief curator, Michael Popak, over at Legal AF MTN. So until my next reporting here on the Midas Touch Network, I'm Michael Popak. In collaboration with the Midas Touch Network, I'm Michael Popak.