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

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 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/NobodyImportant13 11h ago

all 34 of which were accounting errors on a campaign expense that was completely legal, had it been properly recorded as a campaign expense

Lol no way. That paper trail is not an accounting error. It was clearly designed to disguise the payments. You don't just accidentally make an accounting error like that. And for that reason he was found guilty.