Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, told Newsmax on Monday that he’s “absolutely” concerned about the slate of pardons that President Joe Biden issued just before leaving office for members of his administration and the former members of the House panel that investigated the Capitol riot.

Just before leaving office on Monday, Biden issued pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, and various members of the Jan. 6 panel in a bid to protect them from “revenge” by the Trump administration.

Moreno said during Newsmax’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s inauguration that Biden’s last-minute pardons “absolutely … concerns me because what we have under Biden is lack of faith in our institutions.”

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