{"id":37293,"date":"2020-11-18T19:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37293"},"modified":"2020-11-18T19:31:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:31:04","slug":"this-little-act-shows-that-even-joe-biden-knows-he-got-crushed-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37293","title":{"rendered":"This little act shows that even Joe Biden knows he got crushed on Election Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carrot and stick: Biden\u2019s campaign floats \u2018pardon for Trump\u2019 idea to disarm opposition<\/h1>\n

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Rumors of ‘pardon’ for Trump come after the ‘Million MAGA March’ in support of the current president on November 14, 2020. \u00a9 REUTERS\/Leah Millis<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

RT.com<\/p>\n

Nebojsa Malic is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT.<\/p>\n

Using NBC News as a conduit, Democrats are trying to persuade President Donald Trump and his supporters to surrender and maybe expect mercy. Barack Obama\u2019s name-dropping of Genghis Khan offers a clue of what that might look like.<\/p>\n

Citing five anonymous sources\u00a0\u201cfamiliar with the discussions\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in the camp of Joe Biden, the media-anointed president-elect, NBC\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday that he doesn\u2019t want his presidency to be\u00a0\u201cconsumed by investigations\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cBiden has raised concerns that investigations would further divide a country he is trying to unite and risk making every day of his presidency about Trump,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0according to the anonymous officials.<\/p>\n

The Democrats just spent four years investigating Trump for phantom \u2018Russian collusion,\u2019 had the FBI spy on his campaign using the\u00a0fabricated<\/a>\u00a0\u2018Steele Dossier,\u2019 and even impeached him over a phone call to Ukraine that mentioned something Biden publicly boasted about doing. If you believe they are going to drop this vindictive streak for the sake of\u00a0\u201cunity\u201d<\/em>\u00a0now, you sound like someone who might be interested in helping a humble Nigerian prince share his wealth. So what gives?<\/p>\n

Parallel to the\u00a0\u201cnews\u201d<\/em>\u00a0story \u2013 signed by the second presidential debate moderator Kristen Welker, by the way \u2013 NBC also ran a\u00a0\u201chot take\u201d<\/em>\u00a0think piece by a Democrat lawyer Michael Conway, making the exact same argument. Biden should pardon Trump, Conway argued, for the sake of peace and unity.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that Trump has not conceded the election and is trying to dispute the results in several states through litigation, while the mainstream media insist Biden won and social media platforms are suppressing any suggestions otherwise as\u00a0\u201cdisputed\u201d<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0\u201cmisinformation.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Trump supporters rallied across America last weekend in what they called a \u2018Million MAGA March\u2019 to protest the\u00a0\u201cstolen\u201d<\/em>\u00a0election.<\/p>\n

The admission that some 73+ million Trump voters might get angry if Biden goes after him is buried midway through Conway\u2019s argument, between reminders that state and local prosecutors can still prosecute Trump and that a pardon would mean an admission of guilt. Go back to the piece co-authored by Welker and sure enough, the same exact reasoning is there as well \u2013 all the way at the end and attributed to Biden himself.<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s a stick behind the implied carrot, as one of the unnamed NBC sources made sure to note that the Biden DOJ will\u00a0\u201clook into\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the actions of Trump officials between now and the inauguration should they not capitulate.<\/p>\n

“While they’re not looking for broad criminal indictments, they do want to make sure that people don’t think there are no ramifications for any of their actions between now and the new presidency,”<\/em>\u00a0the person supposedly told NBC.<\/p>\n

Judging by the vitriol that Conway\u2019s proposal was met with online, it\u2019s not difficult to guess that the Democrat base is vehemently opposed to any notion of clemency for Trump or his supporters. However, if there is one thing we\u2019ve learned about the Democrats during this election cycle is that they always fall in line and do what they\u2019re told. Recall the frightening speed with which the entire field of primary candidates bent the knee this spring, once the party decided Biden would be the nominee.<\/p>\n

As for what the purported mercy towards Trump and his supporters might look like, however, the Republicans would be wise to heed the words of Biden\u2019s former boss. A day before the dual NBC stories, former President Barack Obama opened his interview with his Atlantic sycophant Jeffrey Goldberg by admiring Genghis Khan\u2019s policy of\u00a0\u201cmercy\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for the conquered.<\/p>\n

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