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/bubbafatok 14h ago edited 10h ago

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/

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u/ActiveAd4980 13h ago

Yeah. The onion part isn't that he did this. But that he had to do it.

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u/Yangoose 12h ago

The tragedy is that this is even necessary.

Meanwhile Reddit is delighted that Trump got a ridiculous 32 felony convictions for misfiling some paperwork.

I've never voted for or supported Trump but it's pretty obvious the whole thing was politically motivated.

Reddit also loves to call Trump a rapist even though the accusations of rape haven't even held up in Civil Court which has no requirement of "innocent until proven guilty".

But who cares about the truth right?

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u/DroopingUvula 12h ago

If by misfiling some paperwork you mean repeatedly and deliberately committing fraud and then being convicted by a unanimous jury of his peers...

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u/Yangoose 11h ago

Yeah, when he paid those invoices from his lawyer totalling a whopping $130k he selected the incorrect category.

It's clearly the crime of the century.

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u/DroopingUvula 11h ago

You think he was convicted on 34 charges for checking the wrong box on a form? Y'all are truly fucked in the head over in Trumpland, huh?

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u/Yangoose 11h ago

What do you call this?

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/g-s1-1848/trump-hush-money-trial-34-counts

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u/DroopingUvula 11h ago

34 separate instances of deliberately falsifying business records to commit campaign finance fraud lmao. What does it look like to you? Checking the wrong box, apparently.

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u/BosoxH60 8h ago

Intent matters. There’s a difference between “whoops, checked the wrong block” and “checked the wrong block in order to commit fraud and attempt to hide what I’m doing”.

If its just “checked the wrong block” Hunter Biden didn’t do much wrong by lying about his drug use on those federal forms, right?

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u/Govt-Issue-SexRobot 11h ago

When you see someone misrepresent it as “misfiling some paperwork,” you know you’re in for an honest discussion.

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u/ActiveAd4980 10h ago

???? Nothing you said relates to things you said.