We haven't seen a pardon as sweeping as Hunter Biden's in generations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump, for his part, is expected to harness the pardon power aggressively when he returns to office.
52% : "It justifies what Trump wants to do," he said.
45% : While the sweeping nature of the Hunter Biden pardon is almost without peer in modern American history, in another respect it does mimic a recent precedent started by Trump himself.
36% : The pardon came the day after Trump announced he would nominate Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist, as FBI director.
28% : Trump will not be able to undo the pardon when he takes office.
28% : "Morison said Trump will likely cite the Hunter Biden pardon when defending his own pardoning decisions.
24% : In criticizing the Hunter Biden pardon on Sunday night, Trump again invoked Jan. 6 defendants, calling them "hostages.
22% : Donald Trump and his allies have long fixated on the president's son, and Trump has repeatedly pledged to use his second term to investigate and prosecute members of the Biden family.
15% : But Trump deviated from that norm -- and on Sunday, Joe Biden followed.

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