California Democratic Senator-elect Adam Schiff is embroiled in a brand spanking new scandal thanks to the fact that nothing posted on the internet ever goes away. Schiff is being reminded about all the times in the past that he slammed President-elect Donald Trump and whined that he would end up using his executive power to pardon family members, which were all given new life thanks to President Joe Biden doing that very thing for his troubled younger son, Hunter Biden. The word of the day, ladies and gentlemen, is “hypocrite.”
If you look up the phrase in the dictionary, a big selfie of the man whose adult face looks like that of a five-year-old, pasted right after the entry. Ole Shifty Schiff is a total joke. Sad that Californians thought he should be one of their senators. Guess stupidity is contagious.
On X, users recirculated a clip from 2018 showing Schiff telling former CNN host Don Lemon that Trump, if he were to pardon one of his sons while under investigation, could be found guilty of obstruction of justice. “In the event that the president pardons anyone in an investigation in which the president is a witness, the subject, or the target, those investigative files would all be turned over to the Congress. The Congress ought to know whether the president is using the pardon power to obstruct justice. The American people have a right to know,” Schiff said, explaining legislation he filed at the time to rein in Trump’s ability to pardon family members. “I think it is clearly constitutional. It doesn’t prevent him from granting a pardon, even a pardon he shouldn’t grant, but it does say that we will be able to at least find out whether the president is using this power to shield himself.”
Adam Schiff in 2018 said pardoning a president’s son could be an effort to obstruct justicepic.twitter.com/XLn6tOnZSm
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During President-elect Trump’s first term, the California lawmaker was a thorn in his side, co-chairing the J6 select committee and spearheading the House’s first impeachment effort against him. Since winning his Senate election last month, Schiff has taken on an elevated role in Washington, one that could see him forced to backtrack on some of his most incendiary statements about the so-called abuse of power by Trump. Democrats largely remained mum on Monday, one day after Biden issued a “full and unconditional” pardon for his son that extends to the past 11 years. The decision now vacates a felony conviction on gun charges and avoids the spectacle of a sentencing hearing later this month that could have seen Hunter Biden subjected to prison time. He will also be pardoned in a case involving felony tax evasion, both of which were prosecuted by special counsel David Weiss.
President-elect Trump was furious over Biden’s pardon for Hunter, going on to refer to it as an “injustice” and promised he would employ the use of pardons to help out his own family members should they become victims of politically motivated prosecution. You know, like the kind he experienced during this previous election cycle.
“Without question, there has long been a fair debate on both sides whether Hunter Biden is being treated overly leniently or overzealously because of his status as Joe Biden’s son. I think there are points to both sides of that. But I think that what’s not disputable is this is a historic act of political nepotism,” Elie Honig stated on Monday.
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