Pardons and Pleas – Democrats Continue to Reward Murderers and Terrorists

One of the many joys of the Christmas season is generosity. Who doesn’t love to generously spend on gifts and delights this time of the year? Democrats in the highest public offices have also been excessively generous this Christmas by gifting terrorists and murderers invaluable pardons and pleas.

The Friday before Christmas, the Biden administration announced that it is lifting the $10 million bounty on the head of radical Islamic terrorist Abu Mohammad al-Jolani who recently seized control of the Syrian government. The Telegraph reported (December 20) that Biden’s leading diplomat for the Middle East, Barbara Leaf, met Jolani in Damascus and said that she had received positive messages. She was cited in the story as:

“Based on our discussion, I told him we would not be pursuing the reward offer that has been in effect for some years.”

Jolani is the head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that remains an internationally designated terrorist organization. He had previously been in U.S. custody for five years before he was released apparently to be used against the government of Syria’s longtime President Bashar al-Assad, who has now been granted asylum in Russia.

As investigative journalist Daniel Greenfield put it: So much for ‘Stop This Terrorist’.

The gift for Jolani’s “positive messages” to Biden’s diplomat was followed by another display of generosity for other terrorists, those who have been in prison for masterminding 9/11. On Monday, December 30, a military appeals court ruled in favor of the plea deal that Biden’s Pentagon had struck last summer with three 9/11 terrorists. Under the sweetheart plea agreement, the trio of radical Islamic terror – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi – would be spared the death penalty.

Biden’s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin faced severe backlash from Americans when the plea deal was first announced in July 2024, owing to which he moved to revoke the deal just three days after it made news. Now the US Court of Military Commission Review has ruled that the plea deal is good to remain valid, giving the terrorists a lifeline. A New York Post editorial called it “a final Biden ‘Screw you!’ to America.”

As if to emulate his federal leadership’s generosity toward terrorists, the Democrat Governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper commuted the death penalties for over a dozen convicted murderers. On December 31, his final day in office, Governor Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 convicts on death row to life in prison without possibility of parole. Raleigh-based NC Newsline cited the American Civil Liberties Union and other leftist advocacy groups praising the Governor’s decision as a “historic step towards ending the death penalty in North Carolina.” For the victims’ families, it must feel a dark beginning of the New Year. But when was the last time the Democrats cared?

As of now, Joe Biden has over two weeks left in the White House. Wonder how many bad actors will see his generosity before he is reduced to a bad memory.