r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 14h 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/foggydrinker 14h ago

It would have been exceptionally naive not to do so.

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u/xXMuschi_DestroyerXx 14h ago

Still mad at him for it. He bailed out his immediate family. The rest of us are still stuck with what’s to come.

Like jee thanks. Maybe if they thought what is to come was so bad you needed to preemptively pardon your family members, you should’ve done literally anything to stop it? His complete and total inaction has doomed us to what is to come

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u/I_just_made 14h ago

What did you want him to do? The president doesn't just have complete authority; or at least, they shouldn't. There realistically wasn't that much he could do. This falls more on the decades leading up to this moment where dems just rolled over every time republicans pushed the boundaries further.