The books fly in the face of the library’s own stated goal to serve as a strictly nonpartisan resource in the capitol.
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) criticized President Biden’s decision to pardon Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and other members of the House panel
Eight of the 1,500 defendants were Arkansans, including the man who became infamous for taking a photo with his feet propped up on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk. Richard "Bigo" Barnett, 64 of Gravette, was sentenced to 54 months in prison after he was found guilty of obstructing Congress and impeding police on January 6, 2021.
The statement stressed that the pardons "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.
President Biden preemptively pardons Dr. Anthony Fauci, former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, and retired Gen. Mark Milley to protect them from Trump inquiries.
The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for breaking the law but for upholding it.”
The pardons shield some of Donald Trump’s biggest political foes from prosecution just hours before his inauguration.
Biden’s last-minute use of his pardon power comes on the heels of another controversial grant of clemency to his son, Hunter Biden, who he absolved of a sweeping list of tax and other crimes committed over a decade-long period.
In former President Joe Biden's final hours as the President of the United States, he pardoned members of his family and notable figures like Anthony ... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk.
“For a lot of people, it’s a joke that is a thinly disguised flex—it’s joking about how important you are,” Tommy Vietor, a co-host of Pod Save America who has been on the receiving end of such jokes many times, told me. “It’s sort of become a standard greeting in a lot of circles: ‘See you in the gulags.’ ‘I hope we get the nice gulag.’”
First on their list are likely to be Joe Biden and a host of his allies, including Nancy Pelosi, Anthony Fauci, members of the January 6 committee, and Liz Cheney, an anti-Trump Republican.
The election of 2024 was devastating for the Democratic Party, losing the White House and the U.S. Senate. Democrats were also unable to take back control of the U.S. House, leaving the party in the political wilderness.