Joe Biden has confirmed that he is considering preemptive pardons for Liz Cheney and Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Neither Fauci nor Cheney have been investigated or charged with crimes at this time, but the Biden administration is reportedly concerned that will change under the Trump administration.
Many of Trump’s supporters and lawmakers, including Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, have called for Fauci to be prosecuted.
Rumors had swirled that Biden was considering pardons for the controversial figures, and he confirmed them in a sit-down interview with USA Today published on Wednesday.
Only three presidents have ever used preemptive pardons. Biden has already issued a pardon for his son Hunter after previously claiming that he would not be pardoning him.
According to the USA Today report, “When Biden met with Trump in the Oval Office a week after the November election, he urged the president-elect not to go forward with threats to target those who have criticized him or, in Cheney’s case, helped lead efforts to impeach him.”
“I tried to make clear that there was no need, and it was counterintuitive for his interest to go back and try to settle scores,” Biden said. “He didn’t say, ‘No, I’m going to …’ You know. He didn’t reinforce it. He just basically listened.”
Biden said his pardon decisions will be based “a little bit” on who President-elect Donald Trump appoints to his administration.
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has been nominated to lead the Justice Department, and former DOJ federal prosecutor Kash Patel has been nominated to head the FBI.
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