With 49 days left in office, Joe Biden pardons 'selectively, and unfairly' prosecuted son Hunter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : He said most Americans "are almost never bought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form" and that those with serious addictions are usually given "non-criminal resolutions" for late tax payments.
54% : Biden's volte-face coincides with the latest appointment by Trump of Kash Patel, a MAGA loyalist, as director of the FBI and fears that the retribution will be general.
43% : But the Republicans have argued that the series of prosecutions which Trump dealt with this year, including his 34-count felony conviction in Manhattan, was a blatant use of the weaponisation of the justice system by the outgoing administration.
36% : Biden's decision prompted a series of condemnatory messages issued from the sofas of the gilded Republican households, starting with president elect Trump himself, who wondered, mostly in capitals: "Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years?

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