NEW: The breadth of Joe Biden’s pardon for his son caught aides off guard — and legal experts say he forged a new precedent just as Donald Trump is ready to assert his own unprecedented power.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/03/biden-trump-pardon-playbook-00192289
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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/03/biden-trump-pardon-playbook-00192289
Look at his last pardon list and tell me how this idea comports with reality.
How are you all this naive? He pardoned Jared’s father which Jared coordinated and then nominated him to be ambassador to France.
Ps: Bill Clinton pardoned his brother in case you have forgotten.
How fking dense are you stop with this bullshit. Trump already had the model. How fking blind are you?
https://apnews.com/article/trump-day-1-priorities-deportations-drilling-ukraine-6747c6e64b0440978f59450b928f61d1
But the extraordinary sweep of the pardon for an 11 year period is the shocker. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/03/biden-trump-pardon-playbook-00192289
Fuck you.
My God - it’s amazing we lasted as long as we have. A Republic if you can keep it…..
Apparently we can’t.
When circumstances change is it reasonable to change our position? Absolutely.
Anyone who has an issue with that needs to step back and look at their own life. /end
All Biden did was beat him to a new one, played perfectly.
Next he should pardon Trump, beating him to a certain self-pardon and fuck with his broken brain. Do it.
Ridiculous notion.
If you all did?
You’d be screaming it from the rafters ffs.
Your readers understand the reality more than the journalists.
We are in scary times. 😵💫
Shocker.
You can talk to the sycophants about that.
Just stop this nonsense.
And Politico isn't the bastion of journalism it used to be. Look at who the bosses are.
Would the country have preferred to see Kash Patel and Pam Bondi shackle Hunter and drag him over broken glass all the way to a 30-year term at Rikers for "crimes" that no one else has every been imprisoned for?
And you wonder why we are disgusted with MSM & legacy news
https://bsky.app/profile/navlaw.bsky.social/post/3lcduedymds2q
You guys, Americans, don't seem to realize : with the election of Tuck Frump, any notion of Justice or Decency is out of the window.
hey MSNBC, we are never getting back together. Ever.
Let's move on.
I see it now. Every bit of corruption will be blamed on Biden pardoning his son before Trump takes the oath of office. The same Trump who was impeached for extorting an ally to make false claims about that son and also pardoned criminals in 2020.
Rightwing oligarchy really do not need excuses.
Playbook? Nonsense. Pres Carter’s broad pardon of draft dodgers in 1977 was after Ford’s 1974 pardon of Nixon. To claim Biden gave Trump the playbook is nonsense. Both are examples of broad pardon powers, but they aren't comparable to January 6.
I mean Mika and Joe rushed to Trump’s side HUMILIATING THEMSELVES and destroying their show to suck up to Trump to save their respective asses because they actually DO KNOW what Trump is capable of.
No. He did not.
Nice work, Kyle.
Everyone calling this bs assessment out is 100% correct.
This pardon is meant to keep his son safe from a weaponized DOJ. Seems logical.
I know it’s not my job, but am I the only one to figure that out?
Trump....enables Trump.
Like Trump has never abused power, staged a coup, stole classified documents and ALSO told us his plans to ignore all laws including running for a third term until Hunter. 🙄🤯
Let me know if you need help with the math 😉
/yes, sarcasm
Sorry . . . needed to blow off a little steam!
Anyone willing to hand over the nuclear codes to DJT is absolutely insane.
Do you have an idea what **T and corrupt DOJ would have done to Hunters life … They wouldn’t stop until he was in a coffin 🤬
Dinesh D'souza
Sheriff Arpaio
Michael Flynn
George Papadopoulos
Roger Stone
Paul Manafort
Margaret Hunter
Charles Kushner
Elliott Broidy
George Gilmore
Donny has never, is not now, nor ever will care about precedents.
Donny does what Donny wants to do, or do you not remember anything he said or did from January 20, 2017 through January 20, 2021??
It's Politico so I'll leave it at that.
important words: Kash Patel. Ready for
your follow-up.
Joe did the right thing.
OTOH, Biden probably feels, and rightly so, that Trump's DOJ would simply not be fair to Hunter, or follow due process..
it kind of bothers me that he did it, but these are not normal times..
we will be faced with a fascist regime before long...