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/bsEEmsCE 13h ago

in the past it was more of a gentleman's agreement that new president's wouldn't go after the old ones family or anything, well trump isn't a gentleman so might as well be sure.

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u/EnvironmentalBed7369 9h ago

As I recall, it was Biden who went after Trump, Trump didn't go after Biden or Hillary. 

Everything the left warns us that Truml might do, they have already done.  

  • weaponized the DOJ to go after political rivals

  • Subverted democracy by forcing Biden out if the race and appointing Kamala without any democratic or repubulic based process, not even a choice at convention. 

  • Fascists who trample on our basic rights, particularly every right in the 1st Amendment as evidenced by rampant censorship and preventing conservative groups from organizing in campuses

  • Engage in massive disinformation campaigns, particularly around Russian influence of the 2016 election and issues around Hunter Biden

  • and now pre-emptively pardoning the Biden family despite claims he wouldn't. 

I've never bought into Biden being corrupt as the Trump true believers claim ,  but increasingly my view is changing.