WASHINGTON • President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson and other members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Retired Gen. Mark Milley has expressed his gratitude to President Joe Biden for issuing him a pardon, saying the move alleviates his concerns over potential "retribution" by the incoming Trump administration.

The former joint chiefs chairman received a pre-emptive pardon from Biden on Monday, just hours before he left office.

President Biden pre-emptively pardoned Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the House Jan. 6 committee, hours before Trump's inauguration.

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In the waning hours of his presidency, Biden issued preemptive pardons to Rep. Bennie Thomspon, former Rep. Liz Cheney, and other members of the Select Committee, the House body that investigated the January 6 riots at the U.

President Biden noted that the "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing."

The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for breaking the law but for upholding it.” The Democratic president pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci,

The panel’s other Republican, former Rep. Liz Cheney, had been the subject of Trump’s ire since her work on the committee, with Trump successfully backing a primary challenger. During the campaign, Trump called her a “war hawk” and a “stupid person,” and said “let’s see how she feels about it, you know when the guns are trained on her face.”

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to former Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson, who led the Jan. 6 committee. Hurricane-prone states The day in pictures Get the USA ...

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