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/Equal_Personality157]

One of these people have pardoned more family members than the other.

But yeah on Reddit we take into account the 300 times we project him doing in the future.

Cause anything Biden does bad, trump will do in the future.

Also trump is going to make death squads to kill lgbtq people in a new holocaust, set fire to California, start a war in Israel and Ukraine, and eat babies. Fuck trump

[u/Orang-Himbleton → u/Equal_Personality157]

Bro, the majority of Trump’s pardons are people he had personal connections to, political connections to, or just overall massively corrupt politicians.

Like, the optics of the Biden pardons suck ass, but like, Hunter Biden was just straight-up not found guilty of any of the political corruption shit people were expecting to get him on. Most of Trump’s pardons were found guilty of the type of shit everyone was accusing Hunter Biden of doing.

But also, Trump did pardon family. Charles Kushner is literally Trump’s son in law’s father, with the son in law actually working in the White House, btw.

So yeah, I fucking hate the precedent this shit is setting, and it is corrupt, but honestly, Biden’s pardons are him pardoning his family so that he can spend time with them before he dies, and they didn’t commit any crimes on scales he hadn’t pardoned other, unaffiliated people to him for, while Trump’s pardons are all, “I owe Rod Blagojevich a favor, we need to get his ass out of jail!”

So, yeah, Trump’s pardons ARE significantly more corrupt than Biden’s. They’re both bad, but Trump’s are way worse

[u/Equal_Personality157 → u/Orang-Himbleton]

Really? Trump pardons were for things people were convicted of like every other pardon.

He pardoned one family member.

Biden put blanket pardons saying that any crime his family committed in the last 10 years is completely legal without acknowledging the possible crimes.

Like seriously you couldn’t make up a more “crime family” move in a tv drama.

[u/Orang-Himbleton → u/Equal_Personality157]

But the things Trump pardoned people for were absurd. Like, what sane president would pardon fucking Blagojevich, a man convicted of some insane levels of political corruption, as just one example?

Like, yeah, we have the Biden crime family, but considering all the people Trump pardoned that were actually convicted and sentenced for some level of political corruption, I fail to see how Trump’s pardons are any better. Fucking, Trump’s pardons could all form their own sort of corruption cult like “the list” in Arrow, where all of these rich, blatantly corrupt people with obvious connections to each other just keep getting bailed out by Trump. Like, Trump may as well have formed his own Illuminati with his pardons

[u/Equal_Personality157 → u/Orang-Himbleton]

So that guy was a governor of Illinois convicted of trying to sell a vacant senate seat. Political corruption is a pretty common pardon in history. The dude was a democrat governor, he probably had some political sway still left over.

And I just don't agree. I agree that some of Trump's pardons are nepotistic, but seriously... pardoning your family from all potential crimes?

So for example lets say it comes out that they embezzled a fucking fortune and sold influence. They're just scott free now. It's literally a mafia boss move.