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I appreciate the president reaching out and trying to protect me from baseless accusations,
Fauci said
We have been pardoned today not for breaking the law but for upholding it,
they said in a statementI guess now I have precedent to do it,
Trump saidDid you know that Biden, while I was making my speech, pardoned his whole family?”
Trump said
My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,
Biden’s statement said
Rather than accept accountability, those who perpetrated the January 6th attack have taken every opportunity to undermine and intimidate those who participated in the Select Committee in an attempt to rewrite history, erase the stain of January 6th for partisan gain, and seek revenge, including by threatening criminal prosecutions.”
The statement continuedI am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics,
Biden’s statement readThe Select Committee fulfilled this mission with integrity and a commitment to discovering the truth,
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This is all fair too okay, that that was on President Trump, but at the very same moment you’re saying that, you had a President Joe Biden, that had the documents inside his garage,
McCarthy retorted
This is the difference. This president told the American public, while he was campaigning for office, ‘if I’m elected president, I will pardon these people,’
McCarthy fired backSo this is what we talk about fair treatment. When people on the other side say ‘oh my God, President Trump may do something in the future,' he hasn’t. Give us the time and… if he does something wrong, that's an appropriate time to make an argument, but right now, I just watched a nation have an opportunity to heal. I watched world leaders come to this inaugural. I’ve watched people who spent millions of dollars against him, sit right behind him and are excited,
McCarthy concludedI will tell you this - four years ago, when President Trump left office, everybody who worked for him got black-balled. No one could be hired…nobody could work any place and then everybody had to go through attorneys. Everybody was getting prosecuted, everybody was being looked at. President Trump had to go through it and what the Democrats did to President Trump. They helped elect him by prosecuting him…,
he went onThere is no presence of any nation in the world that interferes with our administration.”
Mulino rejected any notion, saying
Mr. President, I urge you in the strongest terms possible: Do not pardon Leonard Peltier or cut his sentence short. It would be shattering to the victims’ loved ones and undermine the principles of justice and accountability that our government should represent.”
Wray's letter to Biden endedI have taken responsibility for my actions, sought atonement, and am working to make a positive difference in the lives of the most vulnerable, including the homeless, those recovering from addiction, and those re-entering society."
According to a statement provided to the Courier Journal, Lundergan responded to the pardon by saying
President Trump spoke directly to the issues that matter to these Americans.”
Asked by NBC News' Lester Holt if she agrees with the negative picture Trump painted of American life, Britt saidI must reject in its entirety the words expressed by President Donald Trump regarding Panama and its Canal.”
Mulino responded in a Spanish-language statement sayingMr. President, those are qualities that I see in you,
Thune said
I talked to Melania, she said it the best: ‘America’s kind of sleepy; we’re awake.’ We’re awake and ready to go. Everybody’s excited about the opportunity here.”
Asked what he thinks of Trump’s return to the White House, Graham saidThe Canal was not a concession from anyone. It was the result of generational struggles that culminated in 1999, as a result of the Torrijos-Carter treaty and, since then until now, for 25 years, without interruption, we have managed and expanded it responsibly to serve the world and its commerce, including the United States,
Mulino said in his statement