No further info in the article as it’s breaking news. NBC broke into the inauguration to announce it.
Biden pardoned his entire family and their spouses as Trump directly threatened all of them.
I really have a hard time with this position that there’s a “peaceful transfer of power” yet there’s a fear in the outgoing administration expecting retribution.
If he was this fearful of the incoming administration he should have packed the Oval Office with C4.
And like these pre-emptive pardons will mean shit if Trump is as bad as they think.
An outgoing president needing to pardon his family pre-emptively because the incoming president is threatening them is well along the path to fascism.
Good job electing Trump you fucking morons. I hope that the consequences of your own actions hurt you more than they hurt the rest of the world.
FWIW, as an American, I really hope you’re right. Because there is serious potential for us to fuck up the entire rest of the world for a very, very long time.
We been fucking up the world for the last 4 years…
Good job electing Trump you fucking morons.
I’d like to thank the Gaza single issue voters and bLuEMagA mouth breathers, good job guys!
To be honest, there is a lot of blame to be cast on the Dem leadership as well as the voters. They managed to run one of the most uninspiring campaigns of all time.
Yeah no. Even if the choice had been a blabbering idiot with a Napoleon identity crisis and a beany with propellor for a hat…. then still you don’t vote for a grifting fascist antichrist . It’s really not that hard.
Nah, they gave voters plenty to be hopeful about but none of them actually want that future. The choice was pretty damn clear.
Americans are not the dumbest mf around because you voted a felon and the man who attempted a coup into office knowing full ell us has literally no measures to make him ever leave.
You are the dumbest mf around since you blame the other campaign for being uninspiring.
It was the most important election in US history: a literal felon who attempted a coup and was somehow not hanged for it vs a candidate.
Can confirm; am american.
The Politics community on Lemmy is not open to being told such things though. There are a persistent handful here who like blaming and attacking anyone left of the democratic party who did not fall in line. They will continue to do so while the MAGA regime destroys that which is still decent and good in this country.
To be fair they didn’t actually elect trump, the election was clearly rigged
Rigged, no, Stolen, also no.
Results shifted due to successful propaganda from foreign countries and billionaires, yes.
This is the downside of Democracy, people are pretty dumb overall.
I don’t understand the enormous resistance to the extremely simple idea that obviously evil people obviously and literally rigged an election by literally adding new fake votes, a method so obvious and literal and with such pedigree and history that it has a name, which is ballot stuffing.
Ballot stuffing is pretty easy to detect statistically, and there hasn’t been any evidence of it happening and definitely not at the scale required to affect the election results.
I do find it funny that he thinks it will work
Sadly we would have embraced fascism whether voters elected Trump or Harris/Biden, as we’ve seen with the sentiment towards Palestinians.
With the former, it’s fascism. With the latter, it’s fascism-lite.
Ultimately, we’re going to reach a chilling point that will probably demand a WWIII. When that comes has probably now been accelerated due to Trump winning.
Sanders was our key to fighting fascism. Sadly Obama, Clinton, and Biden all kneecapped him in favor of billionaires and the status quo while claiming no responsibility for the seeds they sewed.
If you have to pardon your family since the future felon president is assuming office that has no safeguards against dictatorship, then you really should’ve just have the next guy arrested and sent to quackamole bay
“The Repbulicans under Trump will end Democracy! Vote for us!”
“How about you use your legal powers to prevent a threat to Democracy? How about you run on a popular platform?”
“Yeah no, we don’t do that. Also we got Dick Cheney on board. Look at all the ghosts of Iraqi kids he murdered glooming behind him. Aren’t they cute? Also we will enact more policies for the good billionaires. #Vibes.”
“And this, son, is the sound of useful idiots”
As the Democrats have declared there is good billionaires and bad billionaires, it should be obvious that they are two sides of the same oligarchy.
If you want anything to improve you need to get rid of the oligarchy as a whole. But the oligarchy has successfully spend a lot of money on gaslighting people into fighting over which oligarchs to support instead.
That’s a great point against politics in general. But fails to address why letting the worse if two evils was the right move.
Yeah dude, Biden had to pardon his entire family but it is Trump’s fault 🙄. Just like Hunter.
Thanks mate. You made a comment so stupid that you made me even stupider.
Of course this highly thought through take comes from a world account.
I hope everyone gets what they voted for.
Including those who didn’t vote
But non-voters didn’t get what they wanted, or if they did, it was a flip of the coin! MAGA freaks are horrible, but at least they believe in something enough to fill out a fucking ballot…
A non-vote, when fascism is on the ballot, is a vote for fascism.
I didn’t say what they wanted.
I hope they get what they VOTED FOR. There’s a difference.
I don’t care, and frankly don’t blame him.
Fuck off, Biden. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Pardons for you and your family and nothing for us, huh?
By the way, accepting a presidential pardon is an admission of guilt. It’s why some people refuse them - it damages their ability to argue innocence in court cases.
Funny how Biden thinks the felon in chief gives a shit about some magic words. If he wants to punish him, he will, and nobody can stop him now.
One last twist of the knife on your way out the door. Slick move sleepy Joe.
Let’s not pretend like Trump won’t be pardoning his family of any and all crimes as well.
People in Guantanamo are rotting away but Bidens family must be protected.
Both things can be true
Since when do pardons protect you from future crimes?
They don’t, but that’s not the point. Trump has suggested that various members of Biden’s family and inner circle I have done wrong and should be prosecuted. This is preemptively heading that off, ensuring that there cannot be a witch hunt.
In the US it’s just basically untested, but it probably wouldn’t hold up but you can still write it on the paper 🤷♂️
