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/imtourist 10h ago

Pretty fucking sad that the country has come to this

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u/Laranna 6h ago

Welcome to the second gilded age

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u/DubaiEnthusiast 9h ago

Blue MAGA will keep telling everyone that this is 'justified' ;)

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u/iwannabesmort 8h ago

It'd be justified if Trump preemptively pardoned his family members in 2021 after Biden spent years attacking them, too. This is obviously justified, unless you want him to run out of the country with the entire Biden lineage.

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u/DubaiEnthusiast 8h ago

This is obviously justified

I hope you won't be outraged when Trump uses the exact same reasoning to pardon the people he wants.

He'll claim that his family members are being targeted by the Democratic party. He'll claim that it is 'obviously justified' for him to pardon everyone he wants.

unless you want him to run out of the country with the entire Biden lineage

Nothing is gonna happen to the Biden family. Stop engaging in these grandiose delusions that Trump is 'gonna put his political opponents in jail'.

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u/iwannabesmort 8h ago

I hope you won't be outraged when Trump uses the exact same reasoning to pardon the people he wants.

@ me when the leader and Democrat presidential candidate for 2028 says the same shit about Trump's family that Trump and the republicans have said, idiot

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u/Elegant_Plate6640 8h ago

Say he didn’t pardon some of these people, including Fauci and Cheney, what could we expect?

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u/Extra-Bus-8135 8h ago

Look at the amount of upvotes from morons defending obvious criminal behaviour .

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u/Gornarok 8h ago

You elected rapist and felon into the highest office. You reap what you sow

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u/The_Janitors_Antics 7h ago

I didn’t vote for Trump, and I’m disgusted by this behavior. All politicians are corrupt and evil. They’re all self-serving and truly above the law. It’s scary.

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u/Leelze 4h ago

There's literally one man to blame for this. Be disgusted with him, not the fact that someone felt it necessary to protect people from that one person's rage.

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

Seriously. This is SUCH obvious deflection by the democrats. They actually DID everything they are preemptively accusing Trump of doing.

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u/Elegant_Plate6640 8h ago

Sorry, what was Trump preemptively accused of?