Has Donald Trump ever been president? Views differ
By I am somewhat more ambivalent about Biden’s decision to pardon his son than Paul, especially since he repeatedly promised he wouldn’t. Whatever one thinks about the decision, however, this is incredibly silly and naive:
The idea that Republicans need a “precedent” to do whatever they want or that the choices Biden makes will affect Trump’s decisionmaking in any way is absurd. Trump pardoned a wealthy in-law who was guilty of more serious crimes and made him the announced nominee to be Ambassador to France earlier this week. And of course Trump pardoned many cronies and co-conspirators who committed crimes other people might actually be prosecuted for during that long-ago forgotten time when he was the president of the United States:
He pardoned people without any justification the first time around https://t.co/6TqfS5xJZW— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) December 2, 2024
Indeed, if there’s any precedent of material consequence here here it’s Trump paying no political or criminal price for his unprecedented corruption and abuse of power. Democratic politicians wondering why they should be the only suckers left at the table is for better or worse going to be a predictable outcome of the normalization of Trump and his re-election.