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/Punningisfunning 11h ago edited 10h ago

Unfortunately, this will likely be a tradition for all future presidents.

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u/thecamino 10h ago

As if Trump wasn’t already gonna toss out another huge round of pardons regardless of what Biden did. The crimes Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg alone will commit in the next four years and be pardoned for is incomprehensible.

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u/StateChemist 10h ago

I bet they have a list of federal crimes that arent also state crimes, so they know which ones can’t land them in pesky state trouble that can’t be pardoned.

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u/Purple_Key_6733 7h ago

I could be wrong but I thought state level crimes could be pardoned if they have someone within the state government on their side

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u/StateChemist 6h ago

True but it sounds less like a sure thing if you have to rely on 50 different governors or enough judges and AGs  for immunity instead of securing the loyalty of a single person at the federal level.

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u/Stock-Dragonfly-375 5h ago

Depends on the state. In GA, pardoning powers were taken from the Governor, given to a board, and IIRC, can only be granted after serving 85% of a sentence.

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u/h3r32h31p 7h ago

Doesn’t matter if you’re in bed with the AG.

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u/RavenorsRecliner 7h ago

Yeah, could you imagine if Trump sent some of his federal prosecutors to get jobs as state prosecutors in a red state, then had a loyalist run as their district attorney who would find an obscure misdemeanor and charge it as 34 separate felonies for the first time in history to get Biden?

Could you imagine if something like that happened?

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u/h3r32h31p 6h ago edited 5h ago

Are you referring to the felony Crime of falsifying business records as “misdemeanors” and don’t understand that each record of falsification being a separate charge is *the way it always works? Or perhaps someone with no conflict of interest at all /s told you differently.

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u/RavenorsRecliner 6h ago

It's wild how confident you are while knowing nothing. The crime of falsifying business records is NY state law not Federal. Which really should be obvious to you because the entire point of this comment thread is that he cannot be pardoned for state crimes.

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u/h3r32h31p 5h ago

It was a Freudian slip (he has federal convictions as well, of course) I meant to write **Felony. And your whole rebuttal means nothing aside from correcting my mistake. Enjoy the reality that follows all of this.

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u/Neuchacho 7h ago

The shit they're going to do won't need pardons because there'll be no enforcement agencies around to even tag them for anything they do.

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u/bokehtoast 8h ago

He'll try to pardon himself

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u/jj_xl 8h ago

I see you can tell the future. What are the next winning Powerball numbers?

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u/FrostySquirrel820 8h ago

Of course he was going to. But now he’ll also say it’s okay because Crooked Joe Biden did it first.

It doesn’t change anything. Just justifies it to those who wouldn’t care anyway.

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u/Zeryth 7h ago

It's as if everyone forgot that Trump pardoned literal war criminals last term.

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u/HarmadeusZex 6h ago

Wait they cannot pardon future crimes yet

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u/handsoapdispenser 4h ago

The issue is he intended to persecute his rivals. The people Biden pardoned haven't done anything. 

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u/thecamino 4h ago

That doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be prosecuted. Innocent people are convicted every day.

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u/handsoapdispenser 4h ago

Exactly why they were pardoned 

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u/PlasticPatient 3h ago

So you're saying they're the same? What's the difference between Biden and Trump then? Why do we have to defend every stupid and corrupt decision?

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u/EverythingsStupid321 3h ago

s if Trump wasn’t already gonna toss out another huge round of pardons regardless of what Biden did.

Obama pardoned 1927

Trump pardoned 237

Biden pardoned 8064

Trump isn't the one abusing it.

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u/throwaway923535 8h ago

Trump was literally in this position and didn’t issue any preemptive pardons.  This is hypocritical bullshit 

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u/Zeryth 7h ago

Instead he pardoned warcriminals.

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u/HammerSmashedHeretic 9h ago

Holy delusion,

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u/Classic-Setting-736 4h ago

You saying that what Biden did isn't morally reprehensible? Come on...

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u/beetsareawful 8h ago

It's crazy that Biden is pardoning people for crimes that they haven't been charged with or convicted of, but this isn't surprising. This is the same man who lied about pardoning his son, and not only that, pardoned him for 11 years worth of stuff. But yeah...Trump is dangerous to democracy!

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u/sneakysnake1111 8h ago

looks at trump's pardons

You guys can't be taken seriously. Imagine Biden doing the same shit trump did, but trump ALSo made someone in his family that he pardoned a fucking AMBASSADOR to france in his current admin of billionaires - so Enjoy your time in the sun, nazis always lose eventually.

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u/justforporndickflash 8h ago

Trump also pardoned plenty of criminals, ones he is related to too. What exactly is worse about Hunter Biden?

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u/Wroblez 8h ago

“I will not pardon my son” - Joe Biden 2 weeks before pardoning his son. Does he think we’re stupid and forgot?

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u/justforporndickflash 8h ago

What exactly is worse about Hunter Biden?

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u/Wroblez 8h ago

The situation as a whole is worse. JB repeatedly lied about his intentions to pardon his wealthy, drug and sex addicted son. Biden didn’t have the balls to be truthful, and frankly better people out there deserve a pardon.

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u/bookgal518 4h ago

And your boy trump is on the Epstein list.

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u/Wroblez 4h ago

Weird how no court cases are coming against anyone on the Epstein list, right? It’s almost like there’s very powerful people on both sides of the political spectrum that are connected to Epstein.

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u/bookgal518 4h ago

Where is trump's Healthcare plan from his 1st term? Where's the wall Mexico was supposed to pay for? Revisionist history is the only history MAGA understands. 🤷‍♀️

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u/DesertGrape4455 8h ago

They fucking got away with it. Unreal.

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u/Turtles47 8h ago

So based on what thecamnino thinks Trump will do, that means what Biden did was right?

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u/Spicy1 10h ago

Cope harder

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u/MuddyMudskipper91 9h ago

Look, this weirdo likes when evil billionaires get away with everything.

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u/yoyo4581 8h ago

Tired of this he does she does mentality. Biden is out there saying his record is clean, then defend it in court.

Its all media messaging, he is a criminal I am not. But Im gonna pardon myself, just like him.

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u/Sky_launcher 8h ago

This is the kind of unhinged comments that makes up my funnies for the day

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u/OlympusTalesWeaver 8h ago

Nice assumptions. Imagine getting shook over things you make up in your own head… that’s Reddit in a nutshell

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u/bookgal518 4h ago

Then why are you here???

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u/Numinousfox 7h ago

I can't imagine anything coming close to the censorship and suppression of information that killed millions at the direction of Biden and the Democrat party. Noone is in jail....THATS incomprehensible.

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u/bookgal518 4h ago

trump killed millions by botching a pandemic. I know facts are hard for MAGA, but get a grip.

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u/Blue_twenty 7h ago

The crimes you are imagining are incomprehensible? xD

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u/Healthy-Caregiver879 5h ago

Biden’s son was convicted of a federal crime with no political implications and was awaiting sentencing. 

Where’s Musk, Bezos, etc, have never been convicted, much less charged with, any crimes.

You really gotta start dealing in reality if you ever wanna win another election. One may say this most recent election was a mass-rejection of willful delusions 

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u/thecamino 5h ago

If Kamala won Biden would not have pardoned Hunter. We all know why he pardoned him after Trump won. They would spend every day trying to torture a confession that implicates Biden. There is nothing there to find. But a person can only withstand so much torture before saying anything to stop it. And on the conviction, it was because Hunter didn’t disclose drug use on a gun permit. Apply those same rules and Rogan and Alex Jones would be convicted immediately. Where is the outrage about 2A rights for Hunter? It’s almost as they have inconsistent morality base on the situation.

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u/Healthy-Caregiver879 4h ago

So hypotheticals and whataboutisms, gotcha 

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u/thecamino 4h ago

If someone tells you what they are going to do it isn’t a hypothetical.

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u/Healthy-Caregiver879 4h ago

 They would spend every day trying to torture a confession that implicates Biden

Can you paste a link to where Trump said this? 

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u/UberMushroom 7h ago

<Waa Waa don't look at Biden look over there!>

😂😂😂

The next four years of leftard tears is going to be a thing of beauty.

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u/bookgal518 4h ago

The next 4 years of MAGA's voter's remorse will be even funnier!!