By Douglas V. Gibbs
The President of the United States has the power to pardon offenses against the United States, and during the Constitutional Convention there were those who argued that the power to pardon must have some kind of check against it otherwise Presidents might use the authority to commit treason. James Madison led the charge, for every other power in the Constitution did not carry with it any unilateral characteristics like the proposed power to pardon. In the end, the language of the Constitution left the President unchecked with the power, and President Joe Biden has now confirmed the fears of those in 1787 who stood against giving to the President of the United States unchecked pardoning powers.
The list of monsters in Biden’s 39 pardons and 1,500 commutations reads like a list of exactly who should not be pardoned. In addition to drug criminals, a disgraced federal judge, politicians who took bribes, persons possessing child pornography on their computers, and other underhanded characters, Biden also believed it to be a good idea to pardon Chinese spies.
Yanjun Xu was convicted in 2022 for “conspiracy to commit economic espionage; conspiracy to commit trade secret theft; attempted economic espionage by theft or fraud; attempted theft of trade secrets by taking or deception.” Biden commuted his sentence, stating, “it is in the national interest that the term of imprisonment related to the aforesaid conviction not be served in its entirety.” Xu, according to the pardon, is to be released, and ordered to leave the United States and never return or commit any other crimes against the United States.
Enemies serving the Communist dictatorship of China, according to Biden, will simply say, “Gosh, I got lucky, time to turn my life around.” Right?
Is he insane? Biden’s pardon gave aid and comfort to America’s enemies. He should be tried for treason. Impeachment should be launched immediately, and then after he is ousted (which would give Kamala Harris, unfortunately, a few-week-long presidency) he should be criminally prosecuted and put in prison for the remainder of his confused, dementia-ridden life.
But Biden’s corruption and treason didn’t stop there.
Spy Ji Chaoqun, convicted of “conspiracy to defraud the United States; impersonating agents of foreign governments; statements or entries generally,” also got a commutation of sentence on November 22 just like his comrade, Xu. According to the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, “Ji worked at the direction of high-level intelligence officers in the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security, a provincial department of the Ministry of State Security for the People’s Republic of China.”
Shanlin Jin, another Chinese national Biden granted clemency to, was convicted after “police found more than 47,000 images and videos of child pornography in his computer.” One such video allegedly showed “an adult male sexually assaulting a female infant,” according to The Dallas Morning News.
Biden’s team claimed the pardons were issued so that they could be used as a part of a prisoner swap – but if that was the case, why didn’t they get the media fanfare that prisoner swaps normally receive? These pardons were done under the radar, quietly. Was the prisoner swap claim just a last-minute claim to stave off criticism?
Treason is not too harsh a word for Biden’s actions. He’s the real insurrectionist, and enemy of the United States. And, sadly, he’s become a pretty typical example of the type of people who infest the Democratic Party.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
