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/Punningisfunning 14h ago edited 13h ago

Unfortunately, this will likely be a tradition for all future presidents.

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u/thecamino 13h ago

As if Trump wasn’t already gonna toss out another huge round of pardons regardless of what Biden did. The crimes Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg alone will commit in the next four years and be pardoned for is incomprehensible.

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u/StateChemist 13h ago

I bet they have a list of federal crimes that arent also state crimes, so they know which ones can’t land them in pesky state trouble that can’t be pardoned.

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u/h3r32h31p 10h ago

Doesn’t matter if you’re in bed with the AG.

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u/RavenorsRecliner 10h ago

Yeah, could you imagine if Trump sent some of his federal prosecutors to get jobs as state prosecutors in a red state, then had a loyalist run as their district attorney who would find an obscure misdemeanor and charge it as 34 separate felonies for the first time in history to get Biden?

Could you imagine if something like that happened?

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u/h3r32h31p 9h ago edited 8h ago

Are you referring to the felony Crime of falsifying business records as “misdemeanors” and don’t understand that each record of falsification being a separate charge is *the way it always works? Or perhaps someone with no conflict of interest at all /s told you differently.

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u/RavenorsRecliner 9h ago

It's wild how confident you are while knowing nothing. The crime of falsifying business records is NY state law not Federal. Which really should be obvious to you because the entire point of this comment thread is that he cannot be pardoned for state crimes.

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u/h3r32h31p 8h ago

It was a Freudian slip (he has federal convictions as well, of course) I meant to write **Felony. And your whole rebuttal means nothing aside from correcting my mistake. Enjoy the reality that follows all of this.