Joe Biden abused the presidential pardoning power to a degree that is perhaps unprecedented in American history. In a naked act of nepotism, he pardoned his convicted son Hunter for “those offenses against the United States which he has committed,” as well as for those he “may have committed or taken part in,” over more than a decade-long period spanning most of Biden’s second vice-presidential term and almost all of his sole presidential term. He then granted clemency to essentially every federal death-row inmate (37 of 40), including those who had murdered in cold blood police, military servicemen, and children, not to mention guards and fellow prison inmates. Just three days before the end of his presidency, Biden then granted clemency to more convicted criminals in a single day—roughly 2,500 people with drug convictions, usually for trafficking—than any other president over the past 100 years had granted over an entire four-year term. Finally, on the morning of his final half-day in office, he proceeded to pardon Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, and the January 6 committee, before capping his presidency by pardoning his siblings and siblings-in-law less than 20 minutes before leaving office, after he had already walked into the Capitol Rotunda for Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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