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What every pardon defender said will happen, did happen. Trump and the DoJ are going after everyone they can. If Biden hadn't pardoned Hunter, the J6 comitee and others, they would have been indicted too.

In retrospect, Biden did the correct thing.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-bondi-director-patel-statements-regarding-indictment-former-fbi-director

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-statements-regarding-indictment-former-national-security-advisor-john

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/new-york-state-attorney-general-indicted

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

He did. He used that power to ignore the Leahy law.