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by hcknwscommenter 262 days ago
Biden and Obama pardons were done by setting criteria (non-violent drug offenders mainly who got caught up in three strikes nonsense, serving huge sentences) and applying the criteria broadly. Trump is targeting specific folks who are contributing to his cause. Tai Lopez has very little chance under a Democratic presidency, per hard data. He has a decent chance under Trump if he can buy enough trump coin and say some flattering things about Trump, per hard data.
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calvinmorrison 262 days ago
Didn't Biden pardon his own son for Gun and tax evasion charges? In fact, James and Frank Biden got them too.

Obama pardoned his close advisor who lied to the FBI

Clinton pardoned Marc Rich - fugitive who's exwife donated lots of money to the clinton Presidential Library or something.

Grant pardoned his own private secretary

Truman pardoned his own yokel local union mobsters from KC

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tzs 262 days ago
> Didn't Biden pardon his own son for Gun and tax evasion charges? In fact, James and Frank Biden got them too

He pardoned several family members. It should be noted that Hunter is the only one who had actually been charged or convicted of a crime.

The others were all preemptive with the stated reason being that Trump was promising to go after the families of basically anyone he saw as an enemy.

Biden had earlier said he would not pardon Hunter, but that was before Trump won. He pardoned Hunter because he didn't think Hunter would be treated the same as the other prisoners in federal prison with Trump in charge. If Harris had won it is very likely Hunter would not have been pardoned and would have went to prison for the maybe 3 years that most experts predict he would have received.

Considering that a decade from now if you tell someone that the origin of the phrase "trumped up charges" comes from a 300+ year old meaning of the verb "trump" related to an Old French word for deceive and a Middle English word for fabricate they will probably will think you are making it up and the "trump" in the phrase means Donald Trump, it is hard to argue that Biden was wrong.

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