Newly sworn-in Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for staffing his administration and mentioned why he doesn’t assume President Joe Biden ought to subject preemptive pardons in an interview on “This Week” on Sunday.
“The precedent of giving blanket pardons, preemptive blanket pardons on the best way out of an administration, I feel, is a precedent we do not wish to set,” Schiff instructed “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos.
Schiff additionally responded to Trump’s promise of pardoning Jan. 6 offenders.
“The American folks, I feel, voted for him partially as a result of they needed one thing finished about crime,” he mentioned. “Not as a result of they needed to see him pardon criminals attacking the federal government.”
Requested if Trump’s threats to go after his political enemies concern him, Schiff pointed to Trump’s nomination of hardliner Kash Patel to guide the FBI.
“I feel if Patel is the director of the FBI, then all bets are off,” he mentioned.
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