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Written by Obot 50549535 ❄️ on 2024-12-02 at 15:20

I feel like I'm missing something. Given the substantial history of US Presidents issuing pardons to relatives -- including Trump giving a pardon to his son-in-law's father -- why is the media going along with a narrative that Biden's pardon for his son is some kind of shocking departure from previous policy?

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Written by Obot 50549535 ❄️ on 2024-12-02 at 15:36

To clarify, Carter, Clinton, Bush I, and Trump all issued pardons to relatives. I'm not seeing what the big news is in Biden doing this.

Edit: although this has appeared in a number of sources I would consider credible, it has now appeared in other credible sources that it is not true that Carter and George HW Bush pardoned a relative.

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