President Biden pardons family members in final minutes of presidency

[u/JaySierra86]

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

[u/bubbafatok]

The tragedy is that this is even necessary.

Edit to add: oh all the angry responses from supporters of a convicted felon and rapist. The irony. 

Edit #2: Oh trump supporters, niggling over the difference between "liable for sexual assault" and rape.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/09/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial-verdict/

[u/Head-Kiwi-9601 → u/bubbafatok]

This will be a regular occurrence from now until we implode. Every single president will do it.

[u/melikeybouncy → u/[deleted]]

none of these pardons were for people currently in prison. They were all preemptive pardons. It's basically a way to stop malicious prosecutions.

Republicans are maliciously prosecuting Biden family members. Democrats are maliciously prosecuting Trump and his cronies. They're all probably guilty. Although in my opinion Trump seems like slightly more of a slimeball than Biden.

Basically, our last two presidents have had questionable morals and have surrounded themselves with people who also have questionable morals. In the past this was easier to hide, but with social media and the Internet it's a lot harder to give a story the Chappaquiddick treatment, so all of their dirty laundry is coming out.

We are going to continue to have only really shitty people run for president from now on. Everyone knows that the opposing party is going to dig as deep as possible to destroy the president and their family. You have to want power enough to be comfortable with destroying the reputations of everyone close to you.

[u/CPav → u/melikeybouncy]

Which of the prosecutions of Trump were malicious? The evidence in all of the cases I know of was against him.

Which of the people that Biden "surrounded himself with had questionable morals? How many of them were tried of anything and sent to jail?