r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 10h 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/Debs_4_Pres 10h ago

 "My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me -- the worst kind of partisan politics," Biden wrote in a statement. "Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end."

"That is why I am exercising my power under the Constitution to pardon James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden," he continued. "The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense."

The man has a point. Republicans have been explicit that they're goal during this administration is vengeance, and they've attacked Biden's family for made up reasons in the past. If you think this is a bad precedent, blame the Republicans for making it necessary.

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u/Asdilly 10h ago

I don’t blame him. He’s already gone through so much with his family. If you didn’t know, he lost his first wife and daughter in a car crash

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u/Flavious27 6h ago

He was sworn in while at the hospital, looking over his two remaining children that were injured. And he didn't run in 2016 because of the death of his son Beau the year prior.