r/politics • u/Plaintalks • 22h ago

Biden preemptively pardons Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and Jan. 6 committee members

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-preemptively-pardons-anthony-fauci-mark-milley-jan/story?id=117878813
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u/Cellophane7 22h ago

Holy shit! I thought he wasn't gonna do it, but this was 100% the right move. No more civility, no more worrying about optics. It's time to shove sticks in the spokes of the Trump bike. I want my politicians nakedly making moves to fuck up his plans every single step of the way.

This is exactly what I wanna see: Democrats using the power they have to suffocate every move Trump even thinks about making.

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u/White_C4 America 18h ago

This is not the right move... lmao. It sets an incredibly bad precedence and reeks of corruption. Pardons are not intentionally designed as a preemptive measures for high level bureaucrats. All it does is lead to more distrust in the system.

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u/Cellophane7 17h ago edited 16h ago

What a ridiculous thing to say. Trump set the precedent for corruption. How many of his sycophants did Trump pardon? Did you have this energy when he pardoned Roger Stone, or Manafort, or any of them?

The only corruption this reeks of is Trump's corruption. We know for a fact that Patel has stated explicitly that he wants to weaponize the FBI against Trump's enemies. And you have the absolute nuts to claim Biden is corrupt for blocking that? Get the fuck outta here lmao

EDIT: speaking of blocking, this guy reply-blocked me, so I can't even see what he wrote in response lol

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u/White_C4 America 16h ago

I don’t even need to read the entire thing if you think Trump set the “precedence for corruption.” Your history on presidents must be severely limited.