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Which other presidents have pardoned relatives? Trump is on the list
Biden joins a short list of other presidents who have pardoned their family members.
@stjepanlukac On the scale of disgusting pardons from lame duck Presidents, this one doesn't even rank. There's been pardons for war criminals, murderers, rapists, mass financial criminals, etc. Owning a gun and misreporting taxes would have been a fine and parole on literally anyone else. And by the next election, no voters that would be on the fence are going to remember or care. This is all pointless beltway and Internet drama.
@stjepanlukac Besides, Trump and Clinton did pardon family.
Biden joins a short list of other presidents who have pardoned their family members.
@stjepanlukac Of all the things to be disappointed in Joe over, this one doesn't even rank. Hell, I'm glad that he had the guts to stand up and say "this prosecution is an injustice hit job against my son to try to hurt me. Fuck this, I'm not going to leave my own son to be further fucked over by Republicans out of some stupid idealized view of how government should work. Take the realpolitik route and do the damn thing. Hell, I wish he'd done that and ousted AG Garland when the shithead slow rolled all the prosecution of Trump...