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> Didn't Biden pardon his own son for Gun and tax evasion charges? In fact, James and Frank Biden got them too

He pardoned several family members. It should be noted that Hunter is the only one who had actually been charged or convicted of a crime.

The others were all preemptive with the stated reason being that Trump was promising to go after the families of basically anyone he saw as an enemy.

Biden had earlier said he would not pardon Hunter, but that was before Trump won. He pardoned Hunter because he didn't think Hunter would be treated the same as the other prisoners in federal prison with Trump in charge. If Harris had won it is very likely Hunter would not have been pardoned and would have went to prison for the maybe 3 years that most experts predict he would have received.

Considering that a decade from now if you tell someone that the origin of the phrase "trumped up charges" comes from a 300+ year old meaning of the verb "trump" related to an Old French word for deceive and a Middle English word for fabricate they will probably will think you are making it up and the "trump" in the phrase means Donald Trump, it is hard to argue that Biden was wrong.



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