Hillary Pollster: These Corrupt Biden Pardons Are ‘The Last Straw’; UPDATE: Fauci Pardon For 11 Years?

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You know who agrees? 2020 Joe Biden!

We’ll get to that in a moment. After the news broke this morning about Biden’s last-minute scummy pardons, both Duane and I had plenty to say about them. What do people on the other side think about these attempts to avoid accountability for official malfeasance? Hillary Clinton’s pollster Mark Penn declared them “the last straw,” and also evidence of Biden Inc corruption:

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The only administration to try to jail political opponents was not Trump’s but Biden’s, and it was the voters who rejected it with their votes. 

There were legitimate questions on whether Fauci lied about his funding of gain of function research, whether Miley broke the chain of command and had unauthorized communications with the Chinese and whether the Jan 6th committee coached witnesses. They may have all been right and truthful but there were questions, and they will all go unresolved now. 

But Biden was elected lying to the public about his son’s business (which was eventually uncovered), sought to win reelection hiding his infirmities, (which was also eventually uncovered), and genuinely abused his office in the closing days of his presidency as his low ratings sink even lower.

Indeed there were “legitimate questions.” We could still get answers to those questions too, because Congress can subpoena these pardoned individuals and force them to testify without resort to the Fifth Amendment. What Biden short-circuited is accountability and consequences for corruption and malfeasance, and it’s impossible to conclude that this is anything other than corrupt. 

Penn connects the dots very well here. This all starts and ends with Biden’s decision to pardon his son for any and all crimes over an 11-year period (1/1/2014 – 12/1/2024). Biden didn’t pardon Hunter Biden because he had been unjustly prosecuted; he pardoned Hunter because Hunter is the bagman for Biden Inc, which funneled millions of dollars from foreign sources through an archipelago of 20-plus LLCs to Biden family members. Biden had promised for at least months to not intervene in his son’s case, but faced with actual prison time for the man who knew where all the money flowed, Biden made sure that Hunter had no incentive to talk.

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In my earlier post, I called the pardons today a form of largely meaningless virtue-signaling. Penn suggests something more calculated in play, though. The pardons for Fauci, Milley, and the J6 Committee members are not just meant for virtue signaling but as distractions from the brute corruption of the Hunter pardon. That corruption leads directly to Joe himself, not to mention his brothers, who thus far have yet to receive the presidential Get Out of Jail Free card from The Big Guy. 

Congress can certainly investigate that, regardless of any pardons. And Hunter Biden can be compelled to testify, too, without recourse to the Fifth Amendment, since his pardon removes any danger from self-incrimination regarding any events over that 11-year period. 

So what does Joe Biden have to say for himself regarding last-minute stunt pardons? Nothing today, but four years ago, Biden was horrified by the prospect of pre-emptive pardons:

Donald Trump issued a total of 238 clemency actions during his term in office, ranking him 29th out of 45 among presidents at the time. Biden has issued thousands of pardons in the final days of his term, including the pre-emptive pardons that Biden declared corrosive to our global standing just four years ago. 

This is indeed the last straw. Or should be, in a sane world. 

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Update: Good Lord! What exactly did Fauci do between 2014 and 2020?

This is the Hunter Biden pardon period, and it suggests that Fauci has some legal exposure for activities committed before the pandemic. What exactly did Fauci need absolution from in 2014-2019? 

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All Hail the Return of Intelligence, Beauty, and Grace

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I’ll let you know right off the bat this is going to be an unashamed puff piece. 

A grateful, kind of excited exhalation of breath written with a big smile on my face through the entire thing.

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Watching my X feed yesterday was simply a marvel of…dang, I don’t know.

Relief? And enormous pride.

Not just in the fact that Donald Trump was within a few hours of his second term and a chance to right four years of abysmal wrongs.

My heart will be in my throat until the oath is over.

No.

It was seeing photo after photo and video of our stunning, soon-to-again-be First Lady with our brilliant and beautiful in-coming Second Lady and realizing again how blessed we are at this moment.

The two ladies accompanied their husbands to a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetary yesterday. Melania in her solemn black cape and Usha in white, the traditional Hindu color for funerals in India. 

Just…golly.

We are so back. And, by God, so is she.

The fashion designer wall has fallen, and how hilarious.

The haute couture crowd will act as if they always knew how fabulous the Trump administration women were, but we know better.

Because we always knew. 

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I think the Left may be in the death throes of ‘Cancel Them’ culture. I don’t see this freakout going anywhere this term.

Ivanka Trump has sparked furious demands from liberals for the “cancellation” of Oscar de la Renta for designing the dress worn by the president-elect’s daughter at a pre-inauguration party.

RadarOnline.com can reveal the fashion house is also facing calls to be boycotted after Second Lady Usha Vance was also pictured in a Oscar de la Renta dress worn for an event at the weekend.

…Nonetheless, people flooded the fashion house’s Instagram page to bash them for designing evening wear for the ladies closest to Trump and Vance.

Some of the most popular comments on the post showing off Ivanka’s dress slammed Oscar de la Renta for supporting “fascism”.

“Fascism – but make it Fashion,” read one of the most popular comments underneath the post.

Yeah. De la Renta sure embarrassed themselves by dressing Ivanka. I’m sure ODLR will ne’er make another Trump ladies’ ensemble because some blue-haired binary freak that shops in thrift stores or TJ Maxx swears de la Renta is ‘dead to them.’

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Okay.

Personally, I’m in the ‘to HELL with Anna Wintour and Vogue’ camp, the hateful witch. Wintour’s had Bashar Al-Assad’s wife on the cover among myriad other vile personages and yet spurned the most cover-ready First Lady since Jaqueline Kennedy?

Trump women managed quite well without Vogue during his first term. I think Melania would have no problem freezing them out this second go-round, even as the rest of the world warms up to the idea of ‘maybe he’s not Hitler after all.’

What’s really going to get the Left’s goat is not only are these women phenomenally intelligent, glorious to look at, gracious and serene in manner, while supremely confident across the board – they are happy.

These women radiate HAPPY.

If there is one thing the bitter, bile-washed, shriveled harpies of the progressive world hate more than conservative beauty, it’s that gorgeous, intelligent woman who lovingly holds her Republican man’s hand – or shares a knowing, intimate glance in a most public moment – and beams happiness like the sun.

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Eats them alive it does.

God, I am just GIDDY.

We are SO back.

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It Could Be Morning in America, 2.0; UPDATE: ‘Welcome Home’

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Forty-four years ago, Ronald Reagan prepared to take office after a shockingly strong victory over Jimmy Carter. Just six years after Watergate, Americans had turned to an outsider, someone who promised “Morning in America” by making a massive course correction following a generation of anger, division, and bitterness.

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Reagan delivered on that promise.

Now, America has chosen again to break away from a generation of partisanship and establishment failures at home and abroad. Donald Trump is returning to the White House with the clearest mandate for change from voters in more than a decade – and in many ways, a change back from the “fundamental transformation” that Democrats pledged in 2008.

This time, Trump has prepared himself for that transformation. His support from voters has never been higher. The Senate needs to deliver Trump’s choices to serve that mandate and give him the opportunity for a fresh start – and maybe a fresh start for us all.

But that doesn’t absolve us from our own responsibilities to greet the dawn of a new era with new resolve. That will be just the first step forward as we move on from a catastrophic presidency, a period of unparalleled suppression of dissent, and a gaslighting operation by the mainstream media that has spanned more than a decade and very nearly derailed democracy — repeatedly.

To meet this moment, our team here at HotAir and on our sister Townhall Media sites are gearing up to fight that gaslighting — with the help of our VIP members. We have seen some signs that the suppression of debate and dissent may finally dissipate on social media, but don’t expect the Protection Racket Media to take that lying down. 

News orgs went all in on Trump hysteria over the last two years, and they will not stop trying to derail this second Trump term for the next four. And they will ruthlessly demagogue anyone who points out their lies and defamations.

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Our VIP members saw us through this dark period, helping us to keep our voice even when Big Tech combined with Joe Biden into the Big Brother Censorship Complex to deprive us of visibility, advertising, and access to our audiences. We need more people to join us to ensure that we have open and fair debate over the incoming administration’s policies, actions, successes, and even their failures when necessary. 

We aren’t afraid of the truth! And if they weren’t afraid of the truth, progressives and Protection Racket Media wouldn’t have fought so hard to keep it suppressed. 

David Strom called this the Battle of Washington, but it’s bigger than that. It’s a fight for the soul of America. Can we get back to rational self-governance by a free people through elected representatives? Or do we continue to sell out to faceless bureaucrats buried in Washington, DC, that suppress speech and create rules and regulations without any accountability to the governed? 

Do we want Morning in America 2.0? Or the twilight of liberty and self-determination?

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Ronald Reagan met the moment, but he didn’t do it on his own. He relied on the goodwill and common sense of the American people, and called us to make his mission our own. We are ready to do that again — and hope you can walk with us in the light of liberty.

Thank you for your support. And a very good morning to you all!

Update: Here’s a gracious moment at the White House as the Bidens greeted the Trumps for a pre-inaugural tea:

Doesn’t it feel like we’re all about to be welcomed home to America as it should be? We had almost lost America as we knew it while in the grip of the radical Left over most of the last two decades. This is not just the restoral of Trump but of the America we knew and love. 

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Joe Biden’s Final Withered, Bony Middle Finger To America?

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I say it in question form, because as I’m writing this, the outgoing president still has about 3 hours of power left with which to wreak havoc. When Winter Warlock accepted the toy choo-choo train from Kris Kringle in the Rankin/Bass claymation movie Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town back in the 60s, his heart melted, along with his powers. All he had left were a few magic beans that could make reindeer fly. That’s it. Joe Biden still has the nuclear codes and someone to write up presidential pardons.

Typically, but not in every circumstance, a presidential pardon covers the sins that the recipient has committed against the people of the United States. In Biden’s case in the wee hours of his last morning as commander-in-chief, he preemptively decided to pardon a handful of some of the more controversial figures in recent American history. 

With the stroke of a pen in the shaky hand of the 82-year-old Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley, the entire January 6th select committee, including Senator Adam Schiff and retired members of Congress Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and every D.C. Capitol police officer that testified to the committee, all are now free from prosecution for anything they’ve done in their life up to today. Mind you, none of these figured have been accused of committing a crime, indicted for one, or even investigated by any agency. 

The White House is attempting to make it very clear that by issuing these pardons, the President is not assuming that all of those he’s pardoned have done something wrong. He’s claiming he’s doing it because they are people President-Elect Donald Trump doesn’t like and criticizes. I’ll just play this and let it sink in.

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There are plenty of people who want to get to the bottom of the government response to the COVID-19 virus. And not just the response, but the creation and cover-up of whose hands have blood on them. Fauci is in the clear. Dr. Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institute of Health, and Dr. Deborah Birx, are not, and neither is Rochelle Walensky and the Center for Disease Control. The incoming administration’s health agencies, in order to even begin to clear the wreckage of their credibility and start over, have to provide a full accounting of who knew what and when, and more importantly, what was science and what was politics, and when science began kowtowing to science. I’m not looking for scalps so much as truthful answers.

As for the J6 committee members, Democrats and their allies in regime media can pound sand the next time they tell me about the rule of law being upheld and democracy being damaged. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created her own personal star chamber, denied the Republican Party the opportunity to place the members on it they wanted, and instead cherry-picked from the GOP conference the two most steadfast Never Trumpers and called it a bipartisan committee. 

There were really never going to be any prosecutions of Adam Schiff or Liz Cheney, and honestly, nobody cares about Kinzinger. That’s why he’s on CNN all the time. Trump has plenty to do looking forward and unwinding the damage from the past four years. He’s going to be too busy to be in the vendetta business. But out of the sense of transparency, a proper investigation of what evidence was manufactured, and further, what exculpatory evidence was cast aside or destroyed, is warranted and necessary at some point. 

I mentioned Biden’s bony middle finger. In actuality, this wave of pardons is the second bony finger of the weekend. The first was Saturday when the soon-to-be-former President pardoned Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne, who both brutally murdered Sussex County, Virginia police officer Allen Gibson. Virginia’s governor, Glenn Youngkin, is beyond furious. 

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“I am beyond outraged and in utter disbelief that President Biden would announce clemency for Ferrone Claiborne and Terence Richardson—two men who admitted for being responsible to brutally killing Officer Allen Gibson, a hero and dedicated servant to our community,” said Governor Glenn Youngkin. “What makes this even more unconscionable is the Biden U.S Attorney advised the White House not to commute these sentences as they are violent offenders. The pain and sorrow this clemency causes the Gibson family is unimaginable. To know that the men who took Officer Gibson’s life will walk free is not just a grave injustice—it is a heartbreaking blow to those who continue to mourn his sacrifice. This is despicable; a grim day for justice and for the families who trust that our system will hold the guilty accountable.” 

Both prisoners admitted to being responsible for the brutal killing of Officer Allen Gibson in Sussex County Circuit Court. The evidence presented and the details surrounding Officer Gibson’s death are deeply disturbing and tragic. 

President Obama declined to grant clemency to Ferrone Claiborne and Terence Richardson. In recent weeks, the Biden White House was advised by the Biden U.S. Attorney not to commute the sentences of certain prisoners, as they were violent offenders. Under the current terms, they are set to be released in July.

Now as horrible as those two clemencies are, and they truly are, the two getting presidential action at the last minute at least did something that needed pardoning. They committed crimes. In the case of this morning’s action, according to Biden’s own logic, he claims he’s protecting the country from fascism by removing government officials from being held accountable by a subsequent government duly elected by the American people. Biden is committing totalitarianism allegedly in order to prevent it. 

If this were all Biden’s idea and a conscious decision on his part, vile and repugnant though it may be, at least one could come to grips with it, and history could judge him appropriate in due time. But Joe Biden is such a shell, a husk of what he once was in the mental acuity department that it’s unclear who is actually running the country. House Speaker Mike Johnson told The Free Press recently about how gone Biden was the first time he tried to talk to him.

That Biden episode was over a year ago, and he’s only slipped in the months since. Regardless of the mental faculties of Joe Biden, the abuse of power this weekend alone would be worthy of impeachment as a standalone event in any normal time. Yes, the power of the president to issue pardons is absolute. Impeachment is a political solution to high crimes and misdemeanors. It’s a political solution when a commander-in-chief goes completely off the rails, like Joe Biden has done. He obviously won’t be impeached, but there is a whole grab bag of actions for which impeachment could have been pursued.

Over a hundred years ago in Burdick V. U.S., a Supreme Court case about the issuance of pardons and the legal status of those who receive one, held this in the majority opinion.

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Joe Biden can go to his grave claiming the pardons issued on his final day do not assume they committed any crime. But that’s not how the law sees it. That’s not how Supreme Court jurisprudence sees it. Those issued pardons today received grace from the outgoing president for assumed crimes or abuses they committed. 

Adam Schiff may be a senator from California for a long while. California is a deep blue state. But he is now pardoned Senator Adam Schiff. Unindicted or unprosecuted Senator Adam Schiff. The stench of assumed guilt is now permanently on him and the others receiving this extraordinary presidential action at the very last minute. 

There are just under three hours left in the Biden presidency. Dr. Jill Dr. Biden, Ed.D, Jim Biden, presidential brother and Biden Inc. capo, and potentially dozens of others looking for a chair before the music stops playing, have not received their pardons for anything they perceive Trump might do to them. I’d like to think Biden’s all done at this point, but honestly, my spidey-sense tells me there will be another raft of pardons in the final hour. 

Finally, Dr. Fauci has responded to the pardon. In a long screed reported on by Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin, he’s absolutely innocent as the wind-driven snow, and has been the utopian public servant for 50 years…but he’s taking the pardon anyway. 

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Weasels, one and all. Assumed felon Anthony Fauci. It has a nice ring to it.

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Vivek Being Shown the Door?

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Last week I opined that Vivek’s talents would have been wasted if he were appointed to the U.S. Senate to replace J.D. Vance. 

He was needed at DOGE, working alongside Elon Musk to dramatically slim down government. 

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Apparently my opinion was not shared with the Trump folks working at DOGE. Vivek apparently is seen more as a showman than a workman, and people inside DOGE will be happy to see the back of him as he goes off to run for governor of Ohio. 

At least that is the story as CBS portrays it. POLITICO has a more neutral take in which Ramaswamy’s political ambitions were the bigger motivation than any tension within DOGE, although one might read between the lines to make the two stories fit better. 

As CBS reports it:

People close to Musk have privately undercut Ramaswamy for weeks, frustrated with his lack of participation in the heavy lifting, according to sources familiar with the internal dynamics. There has been friction between the incoming rank and file DOGE staff and Ramaswamy, the sources said, and Ramaswamy has been subtly encouraged to exit.

“Vivek has worn out his welcome,” one person close to Trump said. 

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This seems perfectly plausible, of course. My assessment of Vivek’s talents is based more on his remarkable rhetorical abilities than any inside knowledge of his managerial abilities. He may be a great talker and not so great a doer. That could be said of me; I shouldn’t be running a lemonade stand. 

POLITICO’S take, as I said, is more neutral in tone. Less inside dishing and more straight “what we see happening.” The “inside scoop” style of reporting is more fascinating to read, but inherently less reliable since “insiders” usually dish on their own opinions and can’t be counted on to reflect any views not their own. 

Vivek Ramaswamy could withdraw from working with the Department of Government Efficiency ahead of his bid for Ohio governor, which he intends to formally announce by the last week in January, according to a person close to the matter.

Ramaswamy’s potential exit could upend DOGE, which aims to reduce government spending by up to $2 trillion by July 4, 2026 — by which time his Ohio gubernatorial campaign will need to be well underway. Following the election, Ramaswamy informed members of the transition that he planned to run for governor, said a person familiar with the transition.

Ramaswamy’s decision accelerated when Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine passed over Ramaswamy to replace Vice President-elect JD Vance in the Senate on Friday, picking instead his own Lt. Gov. Jon Husted.

Multiple people who discussed Ramaswamy and the inner workings of DOGE were granted anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly and to freely discuss sensitive issues.

On Saturday, Ramaswamy showed up at an all-hands DOGE meeting at the SpaceX headquarters in Washington, according to two people familiar with the department’s inner workings. Musk was not present.

The breakdown of labor between Musk and Ramaswamy, according to one person familiar, was that Musk focused on the big picture while Ramaswamy focused on deregulation; the rest of the staff will focus on implementation. Steve Davis, Musk’s right hand man at SpaceX, functions as his DOGE lieutenant, while Brad Smith, a healthcare entrepreneur and Rhodes Scholar, is Ramaswamy’s main point of contact.

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If there is one thing we know about Elon Musk, it is that he is a remarkable manager of people and projects. The joke about Elon is that he specializes in turning an impossible project into one that gets completed late. 

Of course, catching a rocket the size of a skyscraper coming back from space with a pair of chopsticks isn’t the same thing as wrangling bureaucrats–he accomplishes the impossible by firing every bureaucrat he can at SpaceX–I can’t think of anybody who has a better chance of doing what needs to be done. 

If it turns out that Vivek was seen as, shall we say, inessential and even an obstacle to DOGE’s mission, I can take solace in the fact that I have a long enough record of getting things wrong that this one won’t stand out. Too much. 

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Make Biology Great Again: Trump Orders End to ‘Gender’ Wokeness

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Promise. Kept.

During the 2024 election campaign, Donald Trump drew a sharp contrast with Kamala Harris by shining a harsh light on her transgender activism. They ran a campaign ad that showed Harris bragging about providing taxpayer-funded sex-change therapies to felons in prisons. “Kamala Harris is for they/them,” the ads concluded, and “Donald Trump is for you.”

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Trump promised to put an end to gender wokeness as soon as he takes office. Late last night, the Free Press reported that Trump will indeed make that a Day One executive order — and put teeth into it:

President Trump has addressed all this and more in an expansive executive order he will sign tomorrow afternoon called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”

Here is what the order sets out:

  • The Executive Order establishes Government-wide the biological reality of two sexes and clearly defines male and female.

    • All radical gender ideology guidance, communication, policies, and forms are removed.

    • Agencies will cease pretending that men can be women and women can be men when enforcing laws that protect against sex discrimination.

    • “Woman” means an “adult human female.”

    • The Executive Order directs that Government identification like passports and personnel records will reflect biological reality and not self-assessed gender identity.

  • The Executive Order ends the practice of housing men in women’s prisons and taxpayer funded “transition” for male prisoners.

  • The Executive Order ends the forced recitation of “preferred pronouns” and protects Americans’ First Amendment and statutory rights to recognize the biological and binary nature of sex.

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Quite literally, this fulfills the promise to restore sanity to the federal government. And that’s not a Joe Biden “literally,” but a literal “literally.” It means the end of government compulsion that forces people to participate in the delusions of others. And more importantly, it stops the pressure on children to maim themselves for the virtue-signaling benefit of the adults around them. 

“This is far from mere symbolism,” reporter Emily Yoffe notes, and warns that lawsuits will follow shortly afterward. That, however, may be exactly what Trump and his new administration wants. Joe Biden and Democrats exploited the Dobbs decision to some electoral success in 2022, as voters are passionate but fairly evenly divided on abortion. 

There is no such parity over the radical transgender agenda, though. David just wrote about a poll published on Saturday by the NYT and Ipsos shows that 79% oppose biological males participating in women’s sports. When it comes to pediatric sex changes, 71% of Americans oppose that too, and 90% oppose it for anyone under the age of 15. A near majority (49%) believe that government has gone too far in “accommodating transgender people”; only 21% think it hasn’t gone far enough, and just 28% believe that a rational balance has been struck. 

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In other words, Trump and his team understand that they represent the vast majority of Americans on these issues. If Democrats want a fight over pronoun policing, males using female spaces in competitions and bathrooms, and maiming children in pursuit of elite delusions, Republicans and the Trump administration would gladly allow Democrats to die on that hill. And die their political standing will, even more than it did when Trump splashed Harris’ radical bragging all over the air during the campaign. 

Insanity has its consequences. Trump and his team are willing to fight for sanity, and would be happy to champion it as a battle against an elite clique that has already earned the resentment of the electorate. 

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Donald Trump Is Ready to Fight. So Are We.

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On January 20, 2025, America will enter a new era—a Golden Era—of strength and prosperity with the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. However, President Trump’s triumphant return to the Oval Office is just the first step in our fight to restore America’s greatness.

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The Biden-Harris administration has left nothing but turmoil in its wake. Our economy has stalled, Americans across the country are reeling from natural disasters, our enemies are emboldened and the southern border is wide open, our college campuses and Ivy League universities have become safe havens for antisemitism and terrorist sympathizers, and our reputation on the world stage has been tarnished. That all changes next week, but it won’t be easy.

Democrats and their leftist lapdogs in the mainstream media are going to spend every minute of the next four years lying about the new administration and trying to block President Trump’s agenda, an agenda that more than 77 million Americans voted for. Here at HotAir, we fight back against their false narratives.

President Trump is the right man to bring America back from the precipice of disaster, and just like him, HotAir has a mission: to report the truth and deliver news you can trust. As we did while under threat from the Biden-Harris Administration and Big Tech, we won’t back down from continuing to hold the radical left accountable, telling the truth about President Trump’s achievements, and combatting the lies against him.

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NYT Poll: Americans Are MAGA Now

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Not everybody in America is doing the Trump dance–yet–but according to a New York Times/Ipsos poll, the majority of Americans support even his most “controversial” policies. Or, as the Times says, his “harshest” or most “contentious” policy prescriptions. 

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When a policy has majority support, I guess it’s hard to call his positions particularly controversial, although admittedly, the opposition to Trump’s most MAGA policies generates a lot of heat among those who are committed to the destruction of America, the West, and the transing of the kids. 

But as the poll shows, Trump didn’t just win due to a massive rejection of the Biden/Democrat policies. Americans actually want Trump to follow through on the very campaign promises that the Democrats believed would doom his bid to get re-elected in 2024.Ironically, the Democrats’ commitment to hanging Trump’s promises around his neck as if they were a millstone, it was they who drowned under the weight of their own policies. 

Many Americans who otherwise dislike President-elect Donald J. Trump share his bleak assessment of the country’s problems and support some of his most contentious prescriptions to fix them, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Ipsos.

A little more than half of the country expresses some desire to see Mr. Trump follow through with his harshest threat to deal with illegal immigration: deporting everyone living in the United States without authorization.

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In what must be a reality check for reporters who spend their lives surrounded by people who give land acknowledgments before they dig into dinner at a restaurant the poll showed wide support for policies which amount to a complete rejection of the progressives’ most dearly held beliefs. 

And a large majority is sympathetic to efforts to strictly limit how doctors can treat children struggling with their gender identity — an issue Mr. Trump and other Republicans made central to their campaigns for office. Seventy-one percent said that no one under 18 should be prescribed puberty-blocking drugs or hormones. The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision on the matter later this year.

The poll tells the story of a country turning inward, where people are more aligned with Mr. Trump’s “America First” agenda than they were during his first term in office.

For a political figure so divisive — Americans view him more negatively than any other president about to take office in the last 70 years — the level of support for his ideas is striking. Most Americans say the United States has ignored serious problems at home while entangling itself in costly conflicts abroad, the poll found. A majority believe the government is sending too much money to Ukraine. And many are expressing less tolerance of immigrants overall.

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Trump is turning out to be a 21st-century Reagan figure, if not in character then in his ability to reframe how Americans see their country and their ideological commitments. 

As with Reagan, America had to hit bottom before it could start climbing out of the hole into which we have been drug. And, as with Reagan, Pravda Media criticism seems to have lost its power to derail his political success. 

Of course, for those of us who lived through the Reagan years, it is important to remember that Americans had to swallow some harsh medicine before the country started getting better. Reagan had to endure some brutal months and years before medicine started to make the country feel better, and I fear that some of the things Trump will be required to do might put a dent into his popularity at first. 

Of course, history doesn’t repeat itself, only rhyme, so this time it might be different. But DOGE will face enormous opposition once the cuts start happening, and the fight over the Department of Education, should Trump actually kill it (PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!) will be epic. 

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But the approval of Trump’s biggest policy prescriptions will help him get some early wins, and winning begets winning. 

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BREAKING: Biden Pardons Fauci, Milley, J6 Committee

BREAKING: Biden Pardons Fauci, Milley, J6 Committee 17

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BREAKING: Biden Pardons Fauci, Milley, J6 Committee 18

Corrupt to the end. Not to mention incompetent to the end, too.

In what can only be described as Joe Biden’s Last Stunt, the outgoing president has issued what appear to be the final pardons of his one-and-done term. While declaring that no one should take the pardons as an admission of guilt, Biden issued full pardons to former NIAID head Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and every member of the House Select Committee on January 6. That includes Liz Cheney, whose actions on the committee had drawn some significant scrutiny in terms of potential witness tampering:

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President Biden issued pardons for officials who have clashed with President-elect Donald Trump, using his final hours in the White House to help people he fears could face retribution by the incoming administration.

The White House said the president had issued pardons for retired Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci and members and staff of the House committee that investigated the Jan 6., 2021, Capitol riot, as well as police officers who testified before the committee. …

“I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics,” Biden said in a statement. “But these are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing.”

Punchbowl had reported on the potential pardons for the J6 committee members last week. Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told Punchbowl that he’d discussed the matter with White House counsel in December. In a sense, Thompson seemed as confused about the matter as Biden apparently is today:

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Thompson noted that members have some legal protection under the Speech or Debate Clause, a constitutional privilege that prevents lawmakers from executive-branch action over legitimate legislative activities.

Yet Thompson is concerned that Trump could use other means to strike back at Jan. 6 committee members beyond pressuring the Justice Department to prosecute them.

So … what does a pardon do for that anyway? All a pardon does is prevent federal prosecutors from filing charges for any criminal allegations. It might prevent the DoJ from pursuing any civil litigation against the members personally as well, but what kind of lawsuits would Trump and Pam Bondi pursue? These pardons look like nothing more than a PR stunt, since the DoJ would never get an indictment to stand, not even against Cheney for the alleged witness tampering. Any ‘crimes’ committed would have happened under the official aegis of the House of Representatives, and that chamber would have sole jurisdiction in dealing with it. This is nothing but cheap virtue signaling. 

The pardons for Fauci and Milley are somewhat more meaningful, but that makes them even more corrupt. Milley could have faced an investigation for claiming to coordinate with a hostile foreign power (China) to undermine Trump’s legitimate presidential authority — at the very least for insubordination. And Fauci might have faced a myriad of charges, including perjury before Congress for repeatedly lying about the work he funded in China for gain-of-function research, the origins of the COVID-19 virus, and so on. 

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This is nothing more than The Swamp Protecting Its Own. The American people deserve real accountability for the lies and deceit they endured, along with needless restrictions on their liberty, that Fauci largely authored. Biden refused to provide that accountability during his term, and now wants to continue the cover-up past his term. That’s not only shameful but also utterly corrupt. It sends the signal that bureaucrats can use falsehoods to infringe on the liberty and commerce of its citizens with no consequences whatsoever.

And of course, these pardons have other consequences. Now that these recipients no longer have to fear prosecution for their testimony, they can no longer apply the Fifth Amendment to avoid that testimony, either. They can all be subpoenaed in larger investigations into issues such as the pandemic, the January 6 prosecutions, and so on — and once subpoenaed, they have to testify and do so fully and honestly. The only legal risk that these recipients still have is potential perjury charges, as well as criminal contempt if they refuse to comply with a subpoena. That’s also true of the J6 committee members if the House decides to subpoena them — and this DoJ will be just as eager to enforce congressional contempt referrals as Biden’s DoJ was to enforce them against Trump administration officials such as Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro. 

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Trump and the new House may choose not to follow that path, of course. It would probably be advisable to avoid it and just move forward. But that potential certainly exists, and none of these recipients should breathe easier for now. 

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