Biden could do so much good with pardons. Instead he bailed out his son | Tayo Bero

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Trump wrote on Truth Social after the announcement.
36% : Or the fact that he just delivered Trump and the Republican party the kind of ammunition they need to justify pardoning, say, the orchestrators of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol?
36% : Next month, Trump will be the first convicted felon ever sworn in as president in American history, and he's already lining up the get-out-of-jail-free cards for his criminal friends.
34% : And it is that track record that makes the fallout from Biden's pardon so frightening, because Trump has already begun hinting at the ways he plans to capitalize on the decision.
27% : Let's not forget that Trump also spent his first term doling out these pardons to his merry band of thieves and liars including Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
25% : Trump has promised to accelerate mass deportations, to carry out a spree of executions including for drug offenses and is actively seeking to re-incarcerate thousands of people who were released into federal home confinement during the pandemic.
20% : The difference is that now, any time Trump is criticized for his use of pardon power, he will be able to argue that Biden used those same powers to protect his own son.
17% : Bill Clinton used his to clear his half-brother of old cocaine charges, while Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, his son-in-law's father, for tax evasion among other charges.

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