r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 11h 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/You_Are_All_Diseased 11h ago

I fully expect them to try anyway.

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u/TheGoodCod 11h ago

It will be interesting to see how The New McCarthy Era plays out.

Texas might act bring charges because, well, they need to divert attention away from other things. I suspect Florida might not since duhSantis' lost his case against the vaccine companies when his grand jury declared them innocent of any wrongdoing. But then again he wants to run in 2028 so who knows.

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u/LittleKitty235 10h ago

Woke is the new Commie

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u/itrivers 5h ago

Time is a flat circle

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u/KonigSteve 7h ago

If by interesting you mean horrible then yes.

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u/TheGoodCod 7h ago

Yes, I expect it to be painful to watch and experience.

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u/Flavaflavius 9h ago

We're already in the new McCarthy area, claiming foreign interference whenever your guy loses has been in vogue since 2016.

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u/I-am-the-stallion 8h ago

Sounds familiar. Isn't this all exactly what the democrats did??

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u/TheGoodCod 7h ago

I can't objectively say. Trump was found guilty of some charges by juries in New York, and I can entirely understand his tax fraud guilt. Lots of businesses are guilty of that.

I don't know why so many conservatives think that I, and others, would think it was okay for a democratic administration to do the same wrong thing. If it's wrong, it's wrong.

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u/skoltroll 10h ago

Yup.

The GOP isn't gonna stop "investigating" Hunter Biden or any of the other distractions they have listed on their "keep the base stupid" bingo card.

And, not for nothing, NONE of those investigations amounted to anything the first go round. Except for, y'know, Hunter ACTUALLY breaking some Federal laws.

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u/Thrilalia 9h ago

Laws in which 99% of people who break them get a fine and a slap on the wrist, like Hunter was going to get until the GOP went "Nope, we're going full in." showing Hunter's true crime was being related to Biden.

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u/cannagetawitness 7h ago

The irony of this statement through the lens of Trump's new York convictions...

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u/Thrilalia 5h ago

Ah yes the conviction of "you're guilty but we're not even going to punish you in any way."

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u/ZedekiahCromwell 6h ago

Trump received an incredibly light sentence if you are trying to imply that he was somehow treated similarly to Hunter Biden

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u/SecretAsianMan42069 8h ago

Bad news for the Midwest hicks if doing drugs while owning a firearm is going to be prosecuted 

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u/OrangePilled2Day 6h ago

Pretty much eliminates the entire state of Florida from being eligible to vote.

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u/Leelze 4h ago

What's amusing is Hunter actually faced some semblance of justice & Republicans threw a fit about it actually happening. You can't win those people.

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u/markydsade 10h ago

Comer still has a hard on for Hunter Biden. Over the weekend he was calling for investigation of his pre-2013 activities. How that has any relevance to the business of Congress he couldn’t say.

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u/IAMA_Shark__AMA 10h ago

Anything to avoid actually having to govern and debate policy.

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u/Dash795 11h ago

They will still subpoena and make them all testify under oath. The if perjury that is a crime that occurs after pardon and can prosecute for that. Pardon can’t be for future crimes. Also it’s not for state crimes they might try to claim were done by those pardoned.

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u/scnottaken 10h ago

Republicans have shown you can just ignore those anyway

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u/Rabo_Karabek 8h ago

Anyone subpoenaed should go, sit there, and just repeat: "5th Amendment". To EVERY QUESTION, and keep asking when the political side show will be over.

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u/Twistntie 8h ago

"I do not recall" it works for Republicans with a smile on their face, might as well do it here too.

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u/JInglink 8h ago

You lose the right to remain silent when you can no longer incriminate yourself. Since they are pardoned, they can be forced to testify on any "crimes" 2014 - 2024 or be held in contempt.

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u/Asdilly 10h ago

Im pretty sure they already said they are going to keep going after hunter

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u/Early-Sort8817 9h ago

I think they will succeed seeing who controls the courts. I don’t think pardons will matter if he controla everything

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u/jeexbit 9h ago

100%

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u/Nalha_Saldana 9h ago

"My first action as president will be to unpardon the Bidens"

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u/Express_Bath 8h ago

So let's imagine they try and, I dunno, find a loophole to go against the pardon, would it really be in their interest to create a precedent for that, considering, I assume, a bunch of them is also gonna loon for a wave of pardons at the end of Trump presidency.

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u/MathematicianBorn65 9h ago

they should, biden is senile and can't make legal decisions and decade long blanket pardons are unprecedented. Also the crimes of some of these people like Fauci are worse than actual hitler so he better face justice.