Joe Biden’s last-second announcement from just before he left the White House to pardon a long list of family members and Democrat activists, such as his brother James Biden and now-Sen. Adam Schiff, reveals what he thought: That the recipients actually committed crimes.

Irrespective of what investigators might have concluded, and irrespective of what prosecutors might have decided, it’s now on record what Biden thought, according to a new report from the Federalist.

Biden earlier had pardoned thousands of convicted criminals, including three dozen murderers on death row. And his son, Hunter, even though he had promised many times that would not happen.

Then just before leaving office, Biden also pardoned Gen. Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, and “the members and staff of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.”

The report said, “To be pardoned for a crime, there must be a crime. None of the people on this list ha[s] been charged for the awful ways they harmed people in their official capacities. In fact, Biden awarded former Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican, the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the nation’s highest civilian honors on Jan. 2, for ‘Putting the American people over party,’ or, more accurately, for leading the Jan. 6 committee like a rabid dog.”

Cheney notably has been accused of working with a J6 committee witness to change her testimony in ways that would be hurtful to Trump.

“So which is it? Award-winning behavior, or a crime? She tampered with a witness and tainted the facts presented to the American people,” the report noted.

“Sounds like a crime, and with this preemptive pardon, Biden proves he thinks so too — a crime vulnerable to investigation that would lead to charges. It could be no other reason.’

The report noted Milley was chairman of the Joint Chiefs at the time of the horrific Afghanistan withdrawal, which left 13 American soldiers dead. And billions of dollars of American war machinery in the hands of terrorists.

Milley’s agenda was to push the military into “wokeness.”

There even was a claim that after the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, Milley called Chinese officials and reportedly told him to U.S. was “stable” and China would be notified if the U.S. was going to attack, the report said.

While Biden’s action suggests there were crimes, the report explained, Americans are being robbed of “the justice that comes from accountability.”

The report noted Milley’s response was: “I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights.”

“Well of course you don’t. No one likes being held accountable. But leaving 13 military members to die is not perceived, it is a documented fact and much more than a ‘slight,'” the report said.

Regarding Fauci, the report said, “Thousands of people died from COVID on his watch, and he was behind using U.S. tax dollars to fund the lab in Wuhan, China where research was being conducted into bat coronaviruses.”

That’s even though the U.S. government banned funding such “gain-of-function” research.

“Is that a crime?” the report said.

December, 2020. Joy Reid: Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who is an innocent person?

Adam Schiff: No.

Today Adam Schiff got a preemptive pardon. pic.twitter.com/s83ghqk0rs

— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 20, 2025

Schiff, who now has gotten a pardon, was caught condemning such actions when it was Trump who was pardoning some of his supporters four years ago.

He was asked in an interview: “Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who is an innocent person? ”

“No,” Schiff said.