Adam Schiff can’t explain this one away.
The tape doesn’t lie.
And a video from Adam Schiff’s past just came back to haunt him.
As Conservative Reboot reports:
Joe Biden Pre-Emptively Pardons Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff was just given a pre-emptive pardon from Joe Biden, who was apparently worried that Donald Trump would try to use the legal system against him.
Schiff accepted the pardon from Biden, who also pardoned a number of other political figures who Trump has criticized harshly and publicly over the past few years.
But it turns out that Schiff actually has a history of talking about pre-emptive pardons, and he made some statements that are coming back to bite him.
He was worried in 2020 that Trump was going to give pre-emptive pardons to some people.
And Schiff took the opportunity to claim that pre-emptive pardons would never be given to an innocent person.
Of course, now that Schiff has accepted a pre-emptive pardon, it can mean one of three things for him.
Either he has flip-flopped on this issue since 2020, or he is not an innocent person now, or he wasn’t being honest back then.
Schiff Said in 2020 That Innocent People Don’t Usually Get Pre-Emptive Pardons
According to Real Clear Politics, “Sen. Adam Schiff accepted a pre-emptive blanket pardon from President Biden yesterday for his actions related to House Democrats’ investigation into the 2021 January 6 riot.
“He told MSNBC in December 2020, when the shoe was on the other foot, that a president who pardons members of his family is indicative that ‘it’s been essentially a den of thieves environment’ and he has never heard of a president giving a pre-emptive pardon to an innocent person.”
There is simply no way around the contradiction that Adam Schiff created for himself here.
He will likely try to squirm out of this by saying he’s changed his mind since then, and maybe he truly has, but it seems odd.
Here is what Joy Reid asked him in 2020: “Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who was innocent of all crime, just an innocent person? Have you ever heard of that, just somebody getting a blanket pardon and they’re an innocent person?”
And here was Schiff’s response: “No. I think that in the cases, the very few cases, where there have been prospective pardons, such as Ford pardoning Nixon for whatever he may have done during the presidency, there was some idea of the potential criminal liability facing Richard Nixon. Here, it’s an effort not only to prospectively pardon people for things they have not yet been charged with and may never be charged with, but also it’s the president’s own family. It’s people that have been covering up for the president.”
Schiff made his views quite clear.
And he is going to have to answer questions about why he said that, when he’s now accepting a pre-emptive pardon.
If he stands by what he said, it means he’s not innocent.
But if he backtracks, then it means he has either flip-flopped, or he wasn’t honest back in 2020 about his views.