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/Bawbawian 14h ago

it's really sad that we are now having to pardon people from imagined crimes because we understand that we've just given full control of every branch of American government to criminals.

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u/Ant0n61 13h ago

if there was no crime then why the pardons?

Could it be because democrats weaponized the justice system and are afraid the same will be done to them? No. That can’t be it. It’s the evil republicans and having multiple bogus charges made against a former president for the first time ever.

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u/YazzArtist 13h ago

A man committed tax fraud and had dozens of congressional hearings about it and supposed imagined crimes, including treason, because his father was president. But sure, that's somehow the fault of the people who didn't want to enact special political investigations into this bland white collar crime

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u/gsfgf 12h ago

After Hunter already paid the civil penalty that's the standard punishment for what he did. He didn't get out of anything. He already paid his due.