Michael Goodwin: Joe Biden's corrupt last act as president proved...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : It was bad enough that Trump was being inaugurated, but then you learned that Biden had taken the extraordinary step of issuing sweeping preemptive pardons to five members of his family, on top of the one he had granted Hunter last year.
57% : Still, you were stunned when Hunter was convicted of gun charges and pleaded guilty to federal tax charges under cases brought by Joe's own Department of Justice.
55% : It is more than a historical footnote to know whether a former president and vice president sold out his country to foreign adversaries.
32% : "Trump didn't do it, but Biden did.
29% : And although he and Trump rode together to the inaugural ceremony, Trump said Biden never mentioned the pardons.
29% : In 2020, Biden warned Trump against issuing preemptive family pardons before he left office, telling CNN, "It concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks [at] us as a nation of laws and justice.
29% : The clear goal was to knock Trump off the 2024 ballot or at least dirty him up so much that voters would run away.
28% : "I don't want to hurt the Clintons, I really don't," Trump said after defeating her.
23% : He made it clear to aides, who surely made it clear to Attorney General Merrick Garland, that he wanted Trump prosecuted for Jan. 6.
23% : The plot failed, and the Dems' dirty play helped Trump attract voters.
20% : Even though the Times and others predictably defended Biden's pardons by saying he did it to protect his family against "retaliation" by Trump, it began to dawn on you that you've been played for a sucker.
17% : Meanwhile, Democratic state prosecutors in Georgia and New York indicted Trump in criminal cases, and New York's corrupt courts found him liable in two rigged civil cases.

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