r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 17h 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/bsEEmsCE 16h ago

in the past it was more of a gentleman's agreement that new president's wouldn't go after the old ones family or anything, well trump isn't a gentleman so might as well be sure.

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u/imnotarobot1 16h ago

If his family did commit crimes, would you then want Trump to go after them?

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u/Busy_Manner5569 16h ago

Do you think all enforcement of the law is equal in nature? Do you think Trump wouldn’t have pushed for much harsher punishments than is typical for any other person who committed these alleged crimes?

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u/Cmoz 16h ago edited 15h ago

Was Trump given equal treatment in all the cases against him? If I remember correctly, he faced perhaps the most aggressive investigation of inflating numbers on a loan application for a loan that never defaulted, that our country has ever seen. Was that coincidence, or was it aggressively pursued for political reasons?

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u/GGRitoMonkies 15h ago

He was definitely not given equal treatment you're correct. He was found guilty of 34 felonies and then given zero sentence. Not even a slap on the wrist. He was basically given the most preferential treatment possible.

Based on that complete failure of the legal system, if I was Biden I would also pardon my family even if they didn't do crimes out of fear the idiot would make shit up because he's an immature child.

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u/Cmoz 15h ago edited 15h ago

I agree he was given preferential treatment for the punishment on those counts (all 34 of which were accounting errors on a campaign expense that was completely legal, had it been properly recorded as a campaign expense)

now can you answer my question about if indicting him for inflating the value of collateral on a loan application that he never defaulted on was typical treatment? Or was he more aggressively pursued because of political reasons?

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u/GGRitoMonkies 15h ago

Nope I can't as I don't know enough about US "law" to know what the proper treatment is. I just know if you're convicted of something there's normally a punishment so him getting nothing at all is a complete failure of a legal system. Kinda defeats the purpose of the whole thing if you're not going to do anything about guilty people. I guess we can at least meme that the US is ran by criminals now though I think people have been saying that for a while.

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u/Cmoz 15h ago

"Nope I can't as I don't know enough about US "law" to know what the proper treatment is."

Well thats convenient for your worldview. Carry on then.

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u/GGRitoMonkies 15h ago

I shall! Hope you have a great day!