Paul Rosenzweig Urges Biden to Pardon All of Trump Critics Like Cheney, Bill Kristol So He Can’t Prosecute Them

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ROSENZWEIG: "Well, at a narrow tactical level, the reason is simple. There are a large number of people who opposed President Trump’s reelection, against whom the president-elect has threatened legal vengeance. He has threatened to unleash the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute his enemies. He's accused some of them of treason, he's accused many others of them of breaking the law. And even though those sorts of prosecutions or unlikely in the long run to be successful in the courts, the expense and pressure of being under investigation is itself a significant cost. And so, President Biden ought to consider granting part liberally to those of his supporters, who are in the crosshairs of Donald Trump’s vengeance campaign."

REPORTER: "You said he should pardon all of Trump’s most prominent critics. You are talking about people like Liz Cheney, the former GOP congresswoman, military critics like the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Milley, his former chief of staff, John Kelly, writers like Bill Kristol. Do you have a number in mind of how many people you think that he should consider?"

ROSENZWEIG: "I don’t think it’s a huge number. You have named some of the most prominent Trump critics who he has explicitly threatened.“