No further info in the article as it’s breaking news. NBC broke into the inauguration to announce it.

Biden pardoned his entire family and their spouses as Trump directly threatened all of them.

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    18 hours ago

    One last twist of the knife on your way out the door. Slick move sleepy Joe.

    Let’s not pretend like Trump won’t be pardoning his family of any and all crimes as well.

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      17 hours ago

      I don’t think it’s quite the same thing when someone singles out your family and everyone that has “wronged them” politically, and threatens to hang them legally, and maybe even literally.

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      16 hours ago

      The difference is that Trumps family are actually criminals. This is protecting family from blatant partisan witch hunts.

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        16 hours ago

        “It’s different when we do it. We HAD to do it.”.

        Abuse of power is abuse of power. The Democrats can’t say they are the party of the just and fair when they are doing the exact same shit they condemn the right for doing.

        The Democrats will continue to lose if they try and play dodgeball with the Teflon Don. Nothing has stuck or ever will stick to that man and it’s almost entirely thanks to the Democrats in the first place. They should have chosen to eat it on the nose and double down on them being the party that doesn’t try and break rules for personal gain. At least then they would have a legitimate leg to stand on. But they didn’t. They tried to play Trumps game. And they lost. And they will continue to lose.

        I want to believe they will have learned anything from 2016-2024, but only time will tell. I suspect that when 2028 rolls around we will find out that the Democrats have still learned absolutely nothing. Based on my discussions with my left leaning friends and family its really not looking good for them in 2028.

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          From the beginning, Trump fed yall the bullshit of “it’s a witch hunt”. He responded this way to even the smallest of accusations. Now, yall have sainted him, and have placed him completely above reproach. He gets away with anything he wants, says it’s a witchhunt, & yall eat that shit up.

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            11 hours ago

            Unfortunately this is the Democrats fault at this point. A real boy who cried wolf situation. Y’all hated this man so much that you tried anything and everything to shut him down.

            All you did was make it so everyone stopped listening to what you had to say. People even tried to warn you about this approach after the 2016 election but you guys were the “is it me that’s out of touch? No it’s clearly them who is wrong” meme.

            I guess we all get to look forward to Republican rule forever since the Democrats are literally incapable of seeing how they contributed to this situation.

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              literal abusive behavior ‘look what you made me do’

              fucking tool

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      17 hours ago

      One last twist of the knife on your way out the door.

      What? How does this harm you in any way? You’re aware that twisting the knife is something extremely painful and damaging, right?

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        15 hours ago

        I didn’t get what I voted for. But I’m not delusional like the majority of the Democrats are apparently.

        The first vote I could vote for was Obamas second term ( I was just a tad too young to vote for him the first time around) and I did so happily. Then is 2016 I voted for Hillary and was disappointed like many of you when Trump won.

        For the 2020 election I went registered as an independent because I no longer identified as a Democrat. I still have left leaning bias on the majority of issues but I could not identify with the Democrats anymore. I still voted for them, but I wasn’t happy about it. Like many that cycle I viewed Biden as the lesser of two evils.

        Now we get to 2024. I live in California. California was going blue no matter what. But I voted third party because I could not bring myself to vote for Kamala and the current Democratic party again. Just like I cannot bring myself to vote for the King Cheeto himself. My vote was simply a vote of protest for the current leaders of the Democratic party. They need to see that if they don’t change their approach going forward they are going to lose Democratic strong holds like California as well. This past election was one of the closest California has had in awhile. Clearly I am not the only person in my state disillusioned with how my old party has been doing things.

        I really really want them to put forward someone genuinely good in 2028, but I fear they learned all the wrong lessons for the last 10 years. Only time will tell I guess.