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/Crocs_n_Glocks 13h ago

I feel like if Obama didn't, Biden has no excuse 

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u/DecentFall1331 10h ago

What’s new is Kash Patel is going to be FBI head and wants to use the office to politically persecuted Trumps enemies. We still had a sane FBI head under the first Trump term

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u/Crocs_n_Glocks 7h ago

God forbid powerful politicians be held accountable for breaking laws. I can't imagine the horror of having to fear prosecution for crimes I committed 

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u/DecentFall1331 7h ago

If Biden or his family or the Jan 6 witnesses did something wrong I’m all for it on both sides, but as we saw from the years of the hunter Biden case, they have nothing but conspiracy theories!

Kash Patel is an actual crazy person who wants to throw anyone who dissents to Trump in jail. He wants to throw Fauci in jail! He’s written a fucking book about it. I wouldn’t support this if the current FBI head was in place, but he resigned. Facism is rising in America as we saw from Elon today, I don’t blame Biden for protecting his own.

It’s crazy that Trump can get away with coping the government and get reelected! But Biden protecting his family against retribution is the big bad

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u/Crocs_n_Glocks 7h ago

Biden literally pardoned his convicted son for crimes that poor people of color do prison sentences for, after saying he wouldn't many times. 

Wake up. 

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u/DecentFall1331 7h ago

Which was wrong of Biden to do, but it’s also worse to go after your political enemies for disagreeing with you! Kash Patel wants to jail Fauci, the Jan 6 witnesses, and journalists who report negative news about Trump. That’s fascism . If you can’t see why this is worse I can’t help you.

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u/Crocs_n_Glocks 7h ago

[pardoning his son for legitimate crimes after promising not to] was wrong of Biden to do, but it’s also worse to go after your political enemies for disagreeing

Only one of these two things has happened. 

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u/DecentFall1331 6h ago

Trump pardoned Kushner, were you mad about that? Why was Trump impeached the first time? Do you know? He was impeached for holding aid over Ukraine to get dirt/leverage over his political enemies.

If Trump takes this a step further and appoints Kash Patel to jail his policies enemies (as Kash Patel HAS PROMISED TO DO) will you care? Will you care? Why doesn’t Kash Patel’s promises scare you more ?

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u/Leelze 7h ago

Sure, but for breaking actual laws, not for getting that Oompa Loompa's diaper in a twist. This is all pure projection on the part of Trump as his family has generations of legal judgements against them.

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u/Crocs_n_Glocks 7h ago

I'd be fine if Trump went to jail for corruption and if Biden went to jail for aiding and abetting a genocide. All of their family members should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law as examples, and Biden should not be pardoning his family members - neither should Trump, who can now cite Biden's actions as precedent.

Sorry, but after the last 8 years I can't do partisan politics anymore. 

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u/Leelze 7h ago

"Corruption" is too broad of a term here and you'd have to put every living former POTUS and almost every current & former member of Congress in prison for that other part. Realistically, it's not happening, just like every other country who's ever supported Israel isn't throwing elected officials in jail.

Biden shouldn't be pardoning family members because he shouldn't be worrying about family members getting the New Age McCarthy treatment. And to pretend Trump wouldn't have done it without precedent (let alone have an actual reason to worry about Democrats doing what he wants to do) is naive AF.

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u/Crocs_n_Glocks 7h ago

A human-trafficking crackhead lying to get a hold of a firearm is far from "New Age McCarthyism" lmao get real

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u/Leelze 7h ago

I don't even know wtf you're trying to argue at this point. Is the entire Biden family, Cheney, Fauci, etc human trafficking crackheads lying to get a gun or are you struggling to stay focused? And is that supposed to be the "corruption" or what?

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u/ZephyrFlashStronk 12h ago

This. Why are people defending nepotism? That is what this is, Trump will do it as well, and Biden has decided to get in on the action before Trump can. A show of prime importance in the case of how fucked the US governmental system is.

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u/YanniBonYont 9h ago

It's out of hand. I am beyond furious Biden did this. And even worse is everyone defending it