By FRITZ PETTYJOHN
As soon as he became President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed as President. President Kamala Harris could pardon not only Joe, but the whole Biden crime family.
The resignation would be best done before the November election. If Biden resigned after losing the election, and was then pardoned, it would like a quid pro quo, a deal they cut. But if Biden resigned in the next few weeks, and President Harris pardoned him shortly before leaving office on January 20, 2025, it would look like clemency, and a path out of the tawdry business of prosecuting your predecessor in office, a terrible precedent set by Biden himself.
I think this would appeal to all the criminals in the family. Biden could go out gracefully and be responsible for the first woman to become president, if only for a few months. Hunter, especially, would like this.
Biden is an abandoned, broken man, a shell of his former self. He’s no more capable of being President than he was of running a campaign. All he has left is his pride. His party wounded that pride by muscling him out of the nomination. If necessary, they’ll force him out of office as well. He should just resign, soon, for health reasons, as gracefully as possible.
President Harris, campaigning from the White house, flying around on Air Force One, would be a more credible candidate than she is now. This process, including hearings on her selection of a new Vice President, would dominate the news for weeks. Attending to presidential duties would keep her off the campaign trail, limiting the chances of her reverting to her trademarked cackle.
This would best be done before the Democratic Convention, so Harris can deliver her acceptance speech as incumbent president of the United States.
Ain’t politics fun?
Fritz Pettyjohn’s first venture in politics was working for Goldwater for President in 1964. He served in the Alaska Legislature in the 1980s and writes the blog ReaganProject.com.
