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As Hunter Biden pardon sparks backlash, experts say it can't be overturned

Dec 03, 2024 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -48% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "He had an internal process where, according to reporters, he would hear something on television, or someone would talk with him, or he'd read something, and those are the cases that would be considered for clemency," Crouch said of Trump.
39% : She noted that Trump has picked Kash Patel as FBI director and Pam Bondi as Attorney General.
39% : Trump later granted Libby a full pardon.
33% : Critics argued that Bush Sr. granted the pardons at a time when he was a lame-duck president with no political consequences.
30% : Asked if Biden could pardon Trump before leaving office, Couch said, "Biden can pardon anyone he would like.""The question is what would be the benefit to doing that?
30% : Trump also pardoned in 2020, former Gen. Michael Flynn, his first national security advisor, who was convicted of lying to FBI agents as part of special counsel Robert Muller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
21% : In 2017, Trump pardoned former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was charged with criminal contempt of court for disobeying a federal judge's order to stop racially profiling in detaining individuals suspected of being in the country illegally.
16% : In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called the pardon "an abuse and miscarriage of Justice.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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