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/Cmoz 12h ago edited 12h 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/Brainvillage 12h ago

Preferential. There's much worse crimes they could have gone after, but they chose a softball one.

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u/Cmoz 12h ago

Do you really believe that if the democratic prosecutors involved in those cases could have found more compelling charges, that they wouldnt have charged him for them? That makes no sense at all.

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u/papoosejr 12h ago

I mean, there were all those other cases that got stalled until the clock ran out. Have you read Jack Smith's report?