Analysis | In pardoning his son, Biden echoes some of Trump's complaints

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Over the weekend, Trump announced that he would now nominate the pardoned Kushner to be ambassador to France.
40% : That will protect Hunter Biden from any further investigation that Trump could have ordered the Justice Department or Patel's FBI to conduct once taking office.
38% : Even some supporters of Biden said his decision opened the door for Trump to further warp the system by pointing to his predecessor's own words and actions.
33% : The pardon and Biden's stated rationale for granting it will inevitably muddy the political waters as Trump prepares to take office with plans to use the Justice Department and FBI to pursue "retribution" against his political adversaries.
30% : The prosecutions of Trump and the younger Biden were each handled by separate special counsels appointed specifically to insulate the cases from politics and senior department officials have denied that politics entered the equation against either man.
29% : It will also be harder for Democrats to criticize Trump for his prolific use of the pardon power to absolve friends and allies, some of whom could have been witnesses against him in previous investigations.
28% : Trump was charged with illegally trying to overturn an election that he lost so that he could hold on to power and, in a separate indictment, with endangering national security and trying to obstruct justice by taking classified documents when he left office and refusing to return them.
25% : Obvious answer: hell no."To be sure, the cases against Trump and the younger Biden are hardly comparable.
24% : Trump wasted little time seizing on the pardon to make apples-and-oranges comparisons.
24% : I get it, but this was a selfish move by Biden which politically only strengthens Trump."
19% : ""This just furthers the cynicism that people have about politics," he said on MSNBC, "and that cynicism strengthens Trump because Trump can just say: 'I'm not a unique threat.
18% : Trump has long argued that the justice system has been "weaponized" against him and that he is the victim of selective prosecution, much the way Biden has now said his son was.
15% : Trump contends that the two indictments against him by Biden's Justice Department amounted to a partisan witch hunt targeting the sitting president's main rival.

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