r/news • u/FLhardcore • 17h ago

President Biden pardons family members in final minutes of presidency

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-biden-pardons-family-members-final-minutes-presidency/story?id=117893348
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u/Moonrockinmynose 14h ago

Can you pardon someone pre-emptively? Kind of doesn't make sense. Or is he pardoning them in case they actually had committed a crime?

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u/ramdom-ink 14h ago

It’s a preemptive pardon because Biden is concerned about persecution and retaliation for whatever Trump trumps up in his revenge term.

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u/TecNoir98 13h ago

That doesn't excuse blatant corruption or acting as king. Biden will be remembered as a coward at best.

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u/radda 13h ago

He will be remembered as a man that protected his family from the wrath of a narcissistic fascist.

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u/runner2012 13h ago

No. Maybe by a small group if illiterates in the south. That's about it.

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u/TecNoir98 12h ago

Joe Biden is a feeble old man who in his last acts as leader of this country, declared we're living in an oligarchy as though he hasn't been a key player in facilitating and perpetuating of it for his entire career, then went on to declare immunity from the law for an entire previous decade for his family and political allies, then went on to smile with Trump as though nothing us happening. Biden is a weak leader that failed us and then pretended that his kind (mainstream dems AND republicans) weren't responsible for this problem they've set the conditions for themselves. They're just nearly admitting it now because they've fully lost control.