With just weeks left in power, Biden has some big, controversial names to consider for pardons

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : On January 20, he'll hand over pardoning power, along with the keys to the Oval Office, to Trump.
42% : Previous presidents have made notable pardons of their ownIn his first term, Trump made plenty of headlines for pardoning political allies, like his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, his former national security advisor Michael Flynn, and his political advisors Roger Stone and Steve Bannon.
41% : "I wouldn't take it off the books," Trump enigmatically responded.
38% : "Marc Thiessen, from the conservative-aligned think tank American Enterprise Institute, recently used his column in the Washington Post newspaper to argue the president should issue a blanket pardon for Trump as a final act of statesmanship, to attempt to bring a divided nation together.
22% : On the campaign trail, Trump made much of criminal charges he himself faced, calling them political weaponisation and election interference.

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