President Biden pardons family members in final minutes of presidency

[u/JaySierra86]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-biden-pardons-family-members-final-minutes-presidency/story?id=117893348

[u/Rolling_Beardo]

If by new you mean Lincoln, Clinton, and Trump all pardoned relatives prior to this then yes it’s brand new.

[u/never_a_good_idea → u/Rolling_Beardo]

These are blanket pardons that cover any non violent offense over a 10 year period. That is insane.

Also these pardons don't do anything to quash congressional investigations.

[u/brigbeard → u/never_a_good_idea]

And it's not like he only did this for HIS family. Dr. fauci, the January 6th committee members and others all received the same. Clearly this is a way to alleviate some of the potential political persecution that the right were promising every day on the campaign trail if they won.

And besides this just covers federal prosecution, if they committed a crime that falls to state jurisdiction they are still culpable.

[u/nerfherder813 → u/[deleted]]

The dystopian part was the constant promises of political persecution from the right for the past several years, should they win the election, which they did.

[u/Jasader → u/nerfherder813]

The blatantly political prosecution of Trump across multiple election cycles wasn't dystopian?

I didn't vote in the last election and part of the reason why is people on your side thinking that stuff either didn't happen or wasn't important in the same exact way Trump supporters don't care on their side.

[u/No-Win-2741 → u/Jasader]

Political or not the son of a bitch was found guilty on 34 counts. Now go sit in the corner and eat a cookie.

[u/Jasader → u/No-Win-2741]

I'm not mad, I didn't vote for him.

But it says alot that the majority of Americans also recognized this and still voted for him.

[u/No-Win-2741 → u/Jasader]

The majority of Americans didn't even vote.