Desert Rat News staff writer
WASHINGTON – Days after President Hillary Clinton issued a slew of pardons, Republicans remained silent.
“I haven't really thought too much about it,” said House minority leader Kevin McCarthy when asked about the pardons.
Clinton pardoned former President Obama, Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice and other State Department officials from any prosecutions for the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
The president also pardoned daughter Chelsea for no apparent reason, to which one aide quipped, “If she needs a pardon, she must be guilty of something.”
And in a move that is unprecedented -- and possibly unconstitutional -- Clinton pardoned herself for the email scandal in which she used a personal server for work and deleted thousands of emails.
Republicans have been highly critical of President Clinton’s handling of the Benghazi case when she was secretary of State, and have wanted to lock her up for the email debacle.
Some pundits say the GOP leaders are silent because they want their own future president to have the same freedoms to abuse the pardon.
But renowned American history scholar Nozalot Morthanu dismissed that theory.
“The GOP would never support the pardoning of family or close friends or associates. And a president pardoning himself or herself? Republicans simply would not tolerate such a thing.”
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