These pardons are getting a little ridiculous. As always, the internet stands ready with memes:
Anyway:
His Administration became the first in history to unleash the Justice Department on a former President and political rival. As we and others warned, the precedent would tempt future Presidents to do the same, perhaps as early as Mr. Biden’s immediate successor.
As he did with Hunter, he gave his family clemency for unspecified acts since Jan. 1, 2014. This timing is important because a House investigation alleges that Biden family members received money from foreign sources through shadow accounts. The pardons are an** ignominious final act by a President who has never lived up to his self-advertising as a protector of democratic norms.**
...and the NYT, larping it up. What a joke of an outlet: Yes, yes yes, Demented Joe (sorry, "Corpse President")) also did some last-minute pardons "making a mockery of the justice system," but but but noooo buhu, says the libs:
"what Mr. Trump did Monday is of an entirely different scope."
Ah, blow me.
Truly. It was all a psy-op. Every president is the worst president ever, but really-- this guy?
Absolutely pathetic.
God, I'm glad I'm not American.
non-paywalled here: https://archive.md/AQNgv