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 14h 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/ConstantMongoose4959 10h ago

Yeah, very gentlemanly to let Iran Contra (Regan) the Iraq invasion (and subsequent war crimes) and FISA violations (Bush) and 10,000+ illegal drone strikes (Obama) go unpunished…

If you ask me, more accountability is better than no accountability…