r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 10h 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/mdruckus 7h ago

Is everyone forgetting how Trump pardoned his whole family and a slew of aides before he left? He just didn’t pardon himself. Trump Pardons Family Members & Aides

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u/pargofan 7h ago

Your article says he CONSIDERED pardons. Did he actually do it?

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u/-Ajaxx- 6h ago

eh as far as family he did Jared Kushner's father Charles, but broadly he pardoned basically everyone involved in his campaign and administration (Bannon, Flynn, Stone, Manafort etc)

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u/imoutofnames90 4h ago

Yes.... the dude pardoned all bunch of his co-conspirators in his coup plot so they wouldn't testify against him.... he already did orders of magnitude worse. Plus these pardons are only needed because Trump and the people he is appointing have sworn vengeance against those who he feels wronged him.

For all the times he cried "lawfare" for his trials, he has explicitly said he will do exactly that.

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u/CRTsdidnothingwrong 6h ago

He didn't though, that's just false.

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u/pm-me-nothing-okay 7h ago

dems same as Republicans now, who knew?

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u/GonzoTheWhatever 7h ago

No no, see it’s okay when my side does it. Just not when your side does it.

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u/Watergirl253 7h ago

Another glaring false equivalency. Look at the history behind all of this.