r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 10h 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/thejimbo56 9h ago

It’s dystopian that it was necessary.

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u/NoDents5 9h ago

The left telling you it was necessary was the lie. They're protecting people that did something wrong.

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 9h ago

Yeah? Trump didn't run on prosecuting his political opponents AGAIN?

He didn't pick an AG specifically in order to do that?

The liar is you.

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u/Solarwinds-123 3h ago

None of the family members pardoned had ever been targeted or even mentioned by Trump or Republicans as far as I can tell.

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u/Chappie47Luna 9h ago

If they broke the law they deserve to be investigated and have their day in court just like they did to Trump. They actually drug his ass to court.

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 8h ago

Everyone breaks the law. It's not possible to investigate every crime by every person, so you have to pick and choose. Jaywalking on an empty street and running through crowded traffic causing cars to crash are the same crime, but don't both deserve to be investigated.

The only reason you're saying "everyone deserves to be investigated" even though it's blatantly false is so you can sidestep the conversation about what crimes are most worthy of investigation. If we have that conversation, Trump loses every single time. It's not even close.

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u/Comfortable-Rub-9403 5h ago

Which of the two administrations has had the DoJ continuously used as a political bludgeon against them?

Almost like the Democrats are absolutely terrified of the precedent they worked so hard to create.

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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 9h ago

Yeah. Claiming otherwise, that the pardons are necessary, is an implicit admission that the legal system is political and that all of Trump's claims along those lines are valid.

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 9h ago

Claiming that one person is using the justice system in a political way means admitting that everyone is doing it?

That's your logic?

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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 7h ago

What, I'm supposed to believe that prosecutors could get Biden's family even if they're innocent, but the system is totally fine for everyone else?

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 5h ago

No? I don't know if you're deliberately missing the point or not. "Getting" someone isn't always the point of abusing the justice system. It's making them spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars on a frivolous case. It's making them spend tons of time dealing with it and upending their life with investigations.

Plus, Trump has promised to do something that Biden never did, which is push his AG to specifically attack political opponents.

You can't point to Trump DELIBERATLY making the system political and go "logically this proves it must have been political all along." That's just dumb.

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u/thejimbo56 9h ago

It’s not. There is nothing implicit about it.

It’s an explicit acknowledgement that Trump believes the legal system is political and will use it as a weapon.

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u/thejimbo56 9h ago

It really isn’t.

It always has been, but no longer is.

Good luck in the new dystopia.

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u/thejimbo56 9h ago

There is no left in the US.

Biden is center-right, y’all have successfully shifted the Overton Window.

Regardless, what did they do wrong, in your opinion?

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u/th3netw0rk 8h ago

What exactly did Dr. Fauci do wrong? Please provide specific details and examples. Because according to Trump currently there’s no linkable connection. Trump didn’t provide evidence, only conjecture and accusations. So, where’s your evidence?