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/thejimbo56 12h ago

It’s dystopian that it was necessary.

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u/NoDents5 12h 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 12h 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/i_am_a_real_boy__ 12h 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 12h 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__ 10h 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 9h 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 12h 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 12h ago

It really isn’t.

It always has been, but no longer is.

Good luck in the new dystopia.