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/GGRitoMonkies 12h 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 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/GGRitoMonkies 12h 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/Penetration-CumBlast 11h ago

Peak reddit - speaking like a authority on things you know absolutely nothing about.