Biden's U-turn on son triggers backlash over 'bad precedent'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Before departing the White House in 2021, Trump offered clemency to his former top aides Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, as well as Charles Kushner, the real estate investor he just nominated to be US ambassador to France, and who is the father of son-in-law Jared Kushner.
33% : At the weekend, Trump appointed Kash Patel, a loyalist who has vowed to purge the US government's civil service of employees working against the administration's goals, to be director of the FBI to replace Chris Wray, further amplifying those worries.
30% : "Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years?," Trump posted. "
26% : Democrats now fear that Trump will try to weaponise the justice system against them.
26% : Trump issued a short statement on Truth Social in response to Hunter Biden's pardon, to suggest that people who were convicted of storming the US Capitol on January 6 2021, should receive the same treatment.
24% : But the pardon of Hunter Biden comes at a particularly sensitive time for the US justice system, after Trump accused the sitting administration of mounting federal prosecutions against him for political reasons.
23% : The pardon issued by his father will cover those crimes but also any potential crimes committed over the past decade, shielding him from any future prosecution by the justice department under Trump, who has vowed to seek retribution against his political enemies.

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