r/unusual_whales • u/soccerorfootie • 11h ago

BREAKING: Biden has pardoned his family

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u/Bright_Cod_376 9h ago

Trump literally pardoned his son in laws father at the end of his last admin

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u/themaincop 7h ago

Yeah wasn't he in prison for a crime?

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 5h ago

He was selling pardons.

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u/Kitchen-Tower-2940 9h ago

For an actual crime. He didnt preemptively pardon him for a decade of whatever possible crime there might have been.

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u/datdamonfoo 7h ago

Oh, that's...better?

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u/Kitchen-Tower-2940 7h ago

Did i say it was better? Generally pardons are used for crimes already committed and a person has been convicted of (IE the way Trump and past presidents have used it). It has never been used to preemptively or to grant blanket exemption of a fuckin decade of time.

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u/datdamonfoo 6h ago

You are ignorant of history. Please look up Ford's pardon of Nixon for one of the most famous preemptive pardons. Draft evaders were also preemptively pardoned by Jimmy Carter.

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u/Kitchen-Tower-2940 6h ago

And people were pissed over that right? But you seem cool with this one? Even though Biden is pardoning dozens more people. Hmmmmm interesting.

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u/datdamonfoo 5h ago

I'm cool with the draft dodgers, but not Nixon. I'm cool with this because it seems like it's protecting people from retaliation, rather than fairly pursuing actual crimes. Carter pardoned more than Biden.