These sorts of articles do NOTHING to right the Left Wing ship when Biden pardoned 2000 people including his own cocaine snorting, crack smoking, criminal son, and anything associated with them.
Biden did grant more commutations (not pardons) than any other president. 96% of those were in his final year in office. I consider Biden's use of commutations to be a bad precedent (and I never really liked Biden, but given the alternative Republicans chose for us, it wasn't a contest). But if you look at *what* the commutations were for, it looks like a night-and-day difference between Trump and Biden.
In particular, he commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses serving far longer sentences than they would receive if convicted today. I also saw statistics showing that a majority of commutations were letting people out *less than* one year early... and this is the dumbest part, because most people will just see a huge commutation statistic and shake their heads ― mass commutations of less than a year clearly aren't worth the political cost.
Biden did some suspicious clemencies though:
> West Virginia Democrats torched President Biden’s choices of last-minute executive clemency recipients, saying they would expect such actions from their rival, President-elect Trump.
> In a statement released late Monday, local party leaders said they applauded Biden for leading the U.S. "through significant economic challenges" but blasted commutations being given to people convicted of public corruption.
> In a statement for the state party, Pushkin criticized Trump’s first-term pardons of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Gen. Michael Flynn, political strategist Stephen K. Bannon and ex-Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz.
Of course, when Biden does bad things, there are at least some Democrats criticizing him. I haven't seen that from elected Republicans today, not until recently anyway (I think MTG is criticizing Trump, but MTG is roughly as nuts as Trump himself so I am in no way comforted.)
Seems like there's an endless parade of cases of "guy gets pardoned after 'donating' to Trump or buying Trump's cryptocurrency". I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a case like that from *any* other president.
This is so sickening and outrageous that this story must be a practical joke.
Say it ain't so, Donald.
These sorts of articles do NOTHING to right the Left Wing ship when Biden pardoned 2000 people including his own cocaine snorting, crack smoking, criminal son, and anything associated with them.
Come on.
Biden did grant more commutations (not pardons) than any other president. 96% of those were in his final year in office. I consider Biden's use of commutations to be a bad precedent (and I never really liked Biden, but given the alternative Republicans chose for us, it wasn't a contest). But if you look at *what* the commutations were for, it looks like a night-and-day difference between Trump and Biden.
In particular, he commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses serving far longer sentences than they would receive if convicted today. I also saw statistics showing that a majority of commutations were letting people out *less than* one year early... and this is the dumbest part, because most people will just see a huge commutation statistic and shake their heads ― mass commutations of less than a year clearly aren't worth the political cost.
Biden did some suspicious clemencies though:
> West Virginia Democrats torched President Biden’s choices of last-minute executive clemency recipients, saying they would expect such actions from their rival, President-elect Trump.
> In a statement released late Monday, local party leaders said they applauded Biden for leading the U.S. "through significant economic challenges" but blasted commutations being given to people convicted of public corruption.
> In a statement for the state party, Pushkin criticized Trump’s first-term pardons of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Gen. Michael Flynn, political strategist Stephen K. Bannon and ex-Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz.
> "By following this same path, President Biden has legitimized the idea that public officials who violate their oaths of office are above the law," Pushkin said. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wv-democrats-rip-bidens-egregious-public-corruption-pardons-what-wed-expect-from-trump
Of course, when Biden does bad things, there are at least some Democrats criticizing him. I haven't seen that from elected Republicans today, not until recently anyway (I think MTG is criticizing Trump, but MTG is roughly as nuts as Trump himself so I am in no way comforted.)
Seems like there's an endless parade of cases of "guy gets pardoned after 'donating' to Trump or buying Trump's cryptocurrency". I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a case like that from *any* other president.
Hard for me to fault Biden’s preemptive pardons trying to shield from trump's vindictive prosecution.