President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden on gun and tax felonies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : The pardon of Hunter Biden is a political gift to Trump, since it amounts to legitimizing the use of the presidential pardon power for political and personal gain.
64% : "Trump has, of course, already used the pardon power in the same fashion as Biden, to reward his own cronies and accomplices.
30% : None of these administrations were paragons of justice, and many of those pardoned were corrupt high officials or political cronies of the president of the day, but the number of actual pardons has steadily declined since the 1960s, from four digits to three digits, to 237 under Trump in his first term and now 26, the lowest of any president to serve his full term since John Adams.
29% : Biden claimed that he was pardoning his son because he had been "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted," adding, "No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son -- and that is wrong."While it is true that the Republican Party, and Trump in particular, seized on Hunter Biden's sleazy activities as a means of undermining his father's political fortunes, it is notable that Biden chooses to protect his son from potential retaliation from the incoming Trump-Vance administration, while doing nothing to protect any other likely victims of this government of fascists, billionaires and conspiracy theorists.
22% : Executive orders issued by Barack Obama and renewed by Biden have allowed these mainly young people to work and attend college without fear of mass deportations, but they have been compelled to register their status with the federal government, an action that now makes them vulnerable to the mass roundups and expulsions threatened by Trump.
19% : On the contrary, at a meeting welcoming Trump to the White House last month, where he displayed a mixture of servility and senility, Biden pledged the "smoothest" transition from his own government to that of a man he had labeled a fascist only weeks before.
18% : Trump responded immediately by denouncing the pardon as an abuse of power, while at the same suggesting he would now move ahead with pardoning those who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, seeking to block congressional certification of his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
12% : All this changed, of course, with the defeat of Harris November 5, the election of Trump, and the transformation of Biden into a lame duck, counting down the days before his political enemies will take over full control of the federal government: the White House, both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court.
12% : These immigrants are being left to the mercy of fascist xenophobes and bigots like Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, who will lead the campaign of mass detention and deportation that Trump has pledged to launch on "day one" of his second administration.

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