President Joe Biden and his top advisers are mulling possible preemptive pardons of people who may have been targeted by new Trump administration According to an insider close to Biden’s administration.

Potential names could include former and current officials, such as the retired Gen. Mark Milley, former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, Sen.-elect Adam Schiff and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Politico was the first publication to report the information.

The decision is due after Biden gave a full pardon to the son of his, Hunter Biden, on December. 1. The move provoked anger from Republicans and a scathing critique from many Democrats.

The White House said Biden did do it despite his previous promises not to pardon his son, as “it didn’t seem his political opponents would let go of it.”

Throughout his presidential campaign the president-elect Donald Trump vowed to exact “retribution” on his political opponents.

Milley who resigned in the role of chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff last year, has been the target of Republican protests regarding the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The president also stirred up his anger due to a report suggesting Milley secretly contacted his Chinese counterpart prior to and after the 2020 election in order to dispel China’s suspicions Trump had no plans to launch an attack. Trump claimed Milley as a victim of “treason” after the report.

Cheney and Schiff have been criticized by Trump for their work on attacks on the U.S. Capitol by a Trump-supporting mob on Jan. 6 2021. Both were members of the House Jan. 6 committee’s year-long investigation that concluded with the suggestion for criminal prosecution against Trump. Schiff was also the primary House prosecutor in the initial Senate impeachment case.

Cheney was defeated in her reelection campaign the year 2022, losing to Trump’s Republican candidate. Cheney has endorsed the vice president Kamala Harris ahead of Trump and appeared alongside Harris numerous time on her campaign.

Schiff is now the new senator from California after securing the seat previously held by late Senator. Dianne Feinstein in November.

Fauci who was the previous director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Fauci was the subject of severe scrutiny of the response of the government to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He’s been summoned on Capitol Hill to testify on school closings and the origins of the virus and much more by House Republicans after his retirement in 2022.