• skozzii@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    It was to protect him from the crazy MAGA lunatics, if it wasn’t a blanket pardon the right would have manufactured something to get him with. There are plenty of things to criticise Biden for, but this is something I believe any parent would have done in that situation, and its completely fair and the right thing to do.

    MAGA is not and will never play fair.

    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      15 hours ago

      See, that’s the thing: I know it was against any arbitrary charges that were known to come, but as you say - MAGA won’t hold themselves to reason, so rational preemption won’t work. And the actual crimes Hunter was convicted of during that time were absolved. All after Biden Sr avowed he would not pardon him.

      I don’t have children, so I cannot fault his devotion to his kid, but I still feel that justice was not (and maybe could never be) had, and that the position and responsibility of president and presidential pardon were severely cheapened as a result.