Morning Update: Blanket Pardon Bingo

Today, on the Morning Update, Democrats are preparing to waste a significant amount of time and political capital investigating everyone in or adjacent to the Trump Administration – after they defended Biden’s blanket pardons. Trump has made it clear: if Joe can do it, so can he.

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Edited Transcript:

Welcome to your Monday, November 9th, 2026 morning update.

Democrats, they’re happy. They’re excited. They have control of the government. Sort of, almost kind of. Job one isn’t affordability. It’s lawfare. They’ve got a list, a really long list, and they’re going to investigate, subpoena, and indict everybody.

From just the news, immediately after winning control of the House and Senate, Democrats took to social media to announce they would be issuing subpoenas against anyone and everyone associated with President Donald Trump and his administration.

No surprises there; we said this was coming. They’ve been saying it all along, so no big deal, right?

Democrats are reviewing a plan to investigate corporations, including tech, energy, and healthcare firms. In particular, Democrats plan to investigate Amazon, Walmart, and companies allegedly tied to the Trump administration.

Elon Musk, obviously. But wait.

Democrats plan to investigate just about everything. Trump’s Qatari jet, his ballroom, the reflecting pool. Those take a lot of beltway energy that is not interesting or motivating to anybody but hardcore Democrats who already hate Trump, said the senior vice president of groundwork collaborative a tax exempt 501c3 public policy think tank and progressive advocacy group.

We all knew this. Big problem.

Whoever autopenned all those pardons in the Biden administration, blanket pardons, great big beach blanket pardons, bingo.

They were very excited about it and felt very comfortable and confident they would stick. And so far, more or less, they have. Yes, there are some state-level investigations going on, and we may yet see some prosecutions at that level of government. And Democrat states with Democrat governors and Democrat AGs may be a little bit more aggressive about it than Republicans ever were, but at the national level, we still have a big problem.

The same people who are now going to issue subpoenas and indict everybody anywhere near Trump applauded, defended, and fought – and wasted their own political capital – to ensure that those pardons were good.

Why wouldn’t Donald Trump do exactly the same thing?

Trump, in October, told reporters that he would consider preemptively pardoning members of his staff, citing the Biden pardons. Quote, it’s not something I’m thinking about now, but based on Biden, I can do whatever I want, because he certainly pardoned a lot of people. He pardoned everybody of note.

Democrats ran on affordability, high gas prices, high food prices, cost of living, kitchen table issues,

Going on a revenge mission to indict everybody and anybody in the Trump orbit isn’t going to help any of those things, and people should ask them that. There is, of course, this obvious problem.

Democrats never planned to do anything about gas prices or food prices except make them higher because they don’t know how to do anything else.

That’s it for today. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.

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