Comment by JumpCrisscross
19 days ago
> I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration
I expect he will. At that point, Biden will have pardoned his son for felony gun and tax crimes, as well as pioneered the preëmptive pardon, while Trump will have pardoned violent insurrections, drug lords, fraudsters and his corrupt inner circle. If that isn’t enough to build consensus on striking pardon power from the Constitution entirely, I don’t know what will be.
Question: what kind of father would fail to protect his son from an endless bullshit performative Republican inquisition that we all know would have happened?
Especially considering Trump is an obvious vindictive, narcissistic bully who would love to torment Biden
Exactly, that's my point. It's silly to play the game in good faith when you know damned well that you're the only one doing so. At the time Biden promised not to pardon his son, it still seemed vanishingly unlikely that we'd re-elect Trump, and in fact he hadn't even been nominated yet.
So many things changed between June and December 2024. The country's wheels came off, and the undercarriage dragged on the road and caught fire.
Several presidents have given preemptive pardons before Biden: Ford, Carter, the first Bush, and Trump in his first term.