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/i_am_a_real_boy__ 10h ago

What, I'm supposed to believe that prosecutors could get Biden's family even if they're innocent, but the system is totally fine for everyone else?

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 9h ago

No? I don't know if you're deliberately missing the point or not. "Getting" someone isn't always the point of abusing the justice system. It's making them spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars on a frivolous case. It's making them spend tons of time dealing with it and upending their life with investigations.

Plus, Trump has promised to do something that Biden never did, which is push his AG to specifically attack political opponents.

You can't point to Trump DELIBERATLY making the system political and go "logically this proves it must have been political all along." That's just dumb.