Mosheh Oinounou
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first heard Jan 2025
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James Biden, his brother, one of the brothers there who was pardoned, has actually been investigated for years for the work he was doing with Hunter Biden. Was he getting an advantage due to his then brother who was VP and his connections? In an interview back in 2020, Biden criticized the idea of an outgoing president preemptively pardoning family members.
At the time, there was presumption that Trump was going to do that. And Biden was like, that's a terrible thing. And now he's done it. A Trump team spokesperson wrote on X that even Schumer said that something like this would be a gross abuse of presidential pardon authority. And he was talking about Trump at the time, the Schumer person.
So the fact that Biden has already pardoned Hunter Biden after promising he wouldn't do that has already upset people. And now there's that. Apparently, according to people close to Biden, he weighed the decision very heavily, but couldn't in good conscience not protect his family, feeling that Trump would go after them as adversaries. He wanted to save them the headache here.
Again, the Biden folks say, well, they didn't do anything illegal. We just wanted to protect them from the legal issues. Nonetheless, we will never know. Like we're never going to know here. And the optics here, especially again, with like minutes to go in his presidency, no ability to like ask him about it, has some people concerned.
Trump on his way out, like now every president is going to just pardon all their family members preemptively. Or anybody.
Because there is a process for pardons. You'd have to go through the Justice Department. They got to determine. Typically, you've committed a crime to go through a pardon. So this whole like anything they might have done since 2014, like pardon, like the pardon authority in the Constitution is pretty open ended. And the Supreme Court's been differential on it.
But there's a lot of concern about the precedent that Biden has opened up because, by the way, Jill, it wasn't even his it wasn't just his family.
The people here apparently didn't get a heads up that Biden was giving them these extra pardons. Fauci says, I really, truly appreciate the action President Biden has taken on my behalf. Let me be perfectly clear. I have committed no crime and there are no possible grounds for any allegation or threat of criminal investigation against me.
Milley said that he was grateful, but again, didn't know about this in advance. The New York Times writes that in issuing the preemptive pardons here, Biden has effectively turned the constitutional power the president has of forgiveness into a protective shield. against what he maintains would be politically motivated vengeance.
No other president has employed executive clemency in such a broad and overt way. The presidency getting even more powerful here. Again, it's customary for a president to grant clemency at the end of his term if you committed a crime, and there's a feeling that either you were prosecuted unfairly or you've served your time. unprecedented, though, to kind of use this protectively.
And then you got Fauci even saying, like, I didn't ask for this. Like, I didn't need this. I haven't done anything illegal here. Nonetheless, Biden feeling like it was necessary to protect a certain number of individuals, including, as you mentioned, several of his family members. And finally, for some non-politics news, big news in college football last night.
Ohio State defeating Notre Dame 34-23 to win the national championship. A very big deal for the Ohio State Buckeyes winning the first ever 12-team college football playoff national championship. In fact, they went to multiple rounds this year. And if it wasn't for the 12-team situation, neither of these teams would have been in the national championship game. But a big deal for the Buckeyes here.
Their last championship was back in 2014. This is their ninth national championship overall, but their first in a decade here. They become the first team in college football history to win five games against teams that were ranked in the top five of the AP poll. At the time, they were playing Ohio State. Running back Quenshawn Judkins rushing for 100 yards, two touchdowns.
He also got a third score as a receiver. Notre Dame tried to come back there in the second half. They were able to rally a bit to come within one score, but still not enough for the fighting Irish. They still will go back to the drawing board here. They haven't won a national championship over there at Notre Dame since 1988. So they're hoping next year, better luck.
Anyway, congrats to the Buckeyes. All right, now time for On This Day in History. On this day in 1975, 50 years ago, Shining Star by Earth, Wind & Fire released the iconic hit. On this day in 1977, speaking of pardons, Jimmy Carter granted a pardon to nearly all Vietnam War draft evaders.
A blanket pardon to anyone who had evaded the draft, impacting thousands and thousands and thousands of people. On this day in innovation history, 1981, the first DeLorean sports car rolled off the assembly line in Northern Ireland. You might know the DeLorean most famously for its use in Back to the Future as the car Marty and the Doc take to the past and the future.
And on this day in 2020, mentioned at the top, the first coronavirus case reported officially in the U.S. up in Washington state. We now know, Jill, that was not the first case. In fact, by then, there were probably hundreds of thousands of cases around the U.S. But at the time, we were very slow on tests. We didn't have enough tests.
And so officially, this date is marked down as the first positive acknowledged case in the U.S.
Take the gazes. And little did we know, weeks later.
Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for watching our coverage yesterday. And stay tuned. It's going to be a news-packed Week, month, year. Go. Four years? Four years.
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