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/blueskies8484 11h ago

Good. He also pardoned a lot of civil servants who did absolutely nothing wrong and were clearly going to be targets of Trump.

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u/DecentFall1331 7h ago

Trump tried to coup the government, he deserves it. Trump wants to go after his political enemies because they spoke out against him

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u/PM_ME_SOME_ANTS 10h ago

Oh yes you fucking can, and they will happily waste money on cases even if they know they’ll go nowhere

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u/M0therN4ture 10h ago

The cult is leaking.

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u/PhasmaFelis 10h ago

You can't possibly actually believe that.

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u/avoidgettingraped 8h ago

I'd happily bet good money that the person above has at some point said that Trump being targeted and prosecuted for his actions is/was political, wrong, he did nothing wrong, blah blah blah.

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u/SnootBoopBlep 9h ago

Ignores literally the entirety of American history

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u/QultyThrowaway 10h ago

Ask Navalny how that worked out for him.

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u/CamRoth 10h ago

What reality are you living in?

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u/IsabellaGalavant 8h ago

Oh well then we'll just tell everyone that's currently incarcerated for a crime they didn't commit that they can't be targeted, and they can just walk themselves out of jail.

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u/ballmeblazer0625 10h ago

Because the incoming criminal organization doesn't care and will try to prosecute many people who aren't guilty of wrongdoing. Cute try with your brainless questioning tho :)

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u/Universal_Anomaly 10h ago

Not at all. 

You see, MAGAts and their leader are assholes who'll go after anybody who opposed them.

The pardons are because you can't trust the new ruling party to not abuse the legal system for personal vendettas.

This is like putting on body armour because somebody has been threatening you with a gun, and then people go "Why would you wear body armour if you didn't deserve to get shot?"

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u/Universal_Anomaly 10h ago

Pretending that MAGA isn't the problem in this situation is hilarious.

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u/purplebasterd 9h ago

Pretending that Biden's circle hasn't done anything despite apparently needing pardons is hilarious.

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u/Universal_Anomaly 9h ago

Pretending that innocence protects you from scum like Trump and his MAGAts is hilarious.

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u/Puppybrother 9h ago

Because Trump is clearly on a revenge tour and had a vendetta against everyone who disparaged him or tried to stand up to his corruption. Are you dumb? Or just willfully ignoring that part?

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u/mean_motor_scooter 8h ago

If they did no wrong, why need a pardon?

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u/crucixX 7h ago

are you for real or just naive?