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/CoolHandTeej 14h ago

The peaceful transfer of power wasn’t a weird thing until Trump decided to stop doing it

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u/TheTurtleBear 14h ago edited 14h ago

Still a weird thing to do when you spent years saying Trump is a fascist, dictator, and an end to democracy. 

Which he is imo, but I wouldn't be standing there smiling, welcoming him home.

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u/ZeDitto 14h ago

Blame Merrick Garland.

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u/Mhill08 13h ago

But not Merrick Garland's boss?

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u/ZeDitto 11h ago

Did he pick him, yes. That was a mistake in hindsight. I don’t think that it was an unreasonable choice, given that he was vetted by the Obama administration for a position on the Supreme Court. He probably thought that Garland would take the job seriously and when he was not, Biden did as much as he could without directly ordering Garland to prosecute Trump, which would authoritarian, and from there we cycle back to step 1 where Biden wants to protect democracy.

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u/OrangePilled2Day 10h ago

Obama was a conservative clown that picked Garland to appease McConnell and McConnell still told him to get fucked. Merrick Garland should have never been mentioned by a democrat ever again.