By Doina Chiacu, Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden issued pre-emptive pardons on Monday for people Republican successor Donald Trump has targeted for retaliation,

The Wyoming congressional delegation joined Donald Trump on Monday in slamming President Biden’s final-hour pardons. On his way out of office,

U.S. President Joe Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and retired general Mark Milley, to guard against potential retaliation by the incoming Donald Trump administration.

Liz Cheney was run out of Washington D.C. over her public criticisms and investigation into Donald Trump. Now, she’s calling on other Republicans to step up the same way she did as lawmakers prepare to confirm Trump’s Cabinet picks for his second term.

Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and the lawmakers and staffers from the House committee that investigated the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Those lawmakers include former GOP Reps.

Biden made it clear that his decision to preemptively pardon these individuals was no indication of any guilt on their part

Trump is already doing what despots do— he is trying to conceal the truth and threatening to jail those who investigated him”

President-elect Donald Trump fired inside the Republican tent on Wednesday night, blasting several members of the GOP – including several he hired in his first term.

President-elect Donald Trump teased potentially pardoning some of the Jan. 6 rioters on day one of his administration.

The pardoned individuals, including Anthony Fauci and Liz Cheney, may lose the ability to invoke their Fifth Amendment privileges when testifying.

US President Joe Biden has issued pre-emptive pardons for people Republican successor Donald Trump has targeted for retaliation, including former Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and former White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci.

Donald Trump was sworn in Monday as the 47th president of the United States in one of the most remarkable political comebacks in U.S. history.