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Trump doesn't need excuses to trash the justice system.

And how is this worse than pardoning thousands of convicted criminals who tried to violently overthrow the government?

Mounting criticism from idiots who are trying to hide Kash Patel and the latest Hegseth rape scandal.

Lol. Not to worry, nobody has any faith left in the justice system.

Trump will use any lame excuse to remake anything regardless of what anyone does..

Maybe I’m in the minority here, but this is not an issue in my book. There are seriously bigger things to argue about. We spend so much energy on nonsense we don’t even know what we’re supposed to be debating anymore.

Washington Post do you hear yourself. JFC shut the fuck up.

Oh STFU!

So what? I don't blame him. Look who trump has pardoned and what his criminal justice dept would have done to his son had he not pardoned him.

Yo, just wanna say: nobody is above the law, dude. Not even Mr. Hand. Justice is like pizza—everyone gets a slice. 🏄‍♂️

It's stuff like this that makes me not regret cancelling my subscription to your paper. bsky.app/profile/empt...

Victim blaming from the WaPo, no less. But I suppose this sets the narrative that any horror unleashed by Trump over the next four years is somehow Pres. Biden's fault.

Democrats need to take a leaf or to from the GOP's playbook.

I’m glad he did it. No more Hunter Biden in the news. Let’s focus on the crime syndicate in office.

He would do it regardless. Who's to say he won't find a way to change things and persecute both Bidens. Not sure if US has realized they might be turning into the next Russia.

This, this is why Trump won. Because at the slightest sign of pressure over anything the left devour their own. Hunter Biden never should have been prosecuted to the level he was. Kash Patel was clear he would prosecute him more. Biden was justified. Stop being soft we can't afford it anymore.

Trump’s gonna do what Trump’s gonna do., regardless

President Bidens legacy -5 points. Hunter's dad +10,000 points.

Covered the shit out of this didn’t they.

Hunter and the DOJ agreed to a plea deal. A Trump appointed judge blew it up. And now Trump is appointing brain dead, Qanon-gulping, loyalist zealots. What Biden did is legal and correct. The Washington Post should know this and point it out.

Don’t mention the pardons t* has done. What happened to trying to be fair and balanced ?

Trump pardoned conspirators in his own criminal conspiracy

Donald Trump being in office and putting his criminal friends in cabinet positions undercuts anybodys faith in the government in its entirety. Id have done the same thing. If Harris had won it, he wouldn't have done it.

Good for Joe. They were going to come for his son (again). MAGA is frothing at the mouth to take down the entire Biden family and ruin any legacy Joe rightly deserves.

That ship has sailed

Bullshit.

Oh go cry me a river, hypocrite news. You are part of the next four years hell

Stick it where you hide Donald's crimes. Losers

I am not offended and neither are you.

This makes no sense. Trump opened the door to unrestricted pardons when he pardoned Manifort and Stone, both directly related to crimes benefiting him, and then his Father-in-Law and soon to be himself. No loving parent would leave their son exposed to someone as vindictive as Trump

So i asked around informally about how people felt. They all thought Biden had acted i. Good faith letting the Justice Dept act, but knowing what Trump would do, they all felt it was right for him to pardon Hunter. No one likes it but all are ok with it

Gaslighting gaslighting gaslighting. They are trying to rewrite history right before our eyes.

Maybe remove the ability for president to pardon anyone?

Trump will criticise anything because he’s a brainless wind bag. I think Joe should pardon Trump for one of his 34 felonies. Just for a laugh. #LaughingStock

RWers don't hold their own to any account. Those muscles are hobbled by their media. So they love to waddle and flap over and try to hold ours to account. Wagging and spitting and flapping-it's a grotesquerie. It's meant to sicken and demoralize you. As most of their words are.

Is it a joke?

Rs showed norms mean nothing politically. Ds accept new reality. Americans lose all around.

Glad I cancelled my subscription

Good for Biden! Normally I would disagree with this decision, however normal went out the door a long time ago!

You are deliberately amplifying that criticism.

This is exactly the problem. People trying to hold the Democrats accountable while they don't even bother trying to hold the Republicans accountable.

Trump is going to do whatever the F he wants regardless of what the Democrats do. He absolutely doesn't care! I say that the Democrats need to realize this and stop being nice and absolutely stop playing by the rules. You can't compete against a party who doesn't care about the rules or law.

Trump will likely pardon hundreds of violent thugs who terrorized the Capitol 4 years ago.

This is exactly the bitch slap to the orange man that should have started 2 years ago instead of sitting in the corner in the fetal position while the maga morons walked all over us. GO GET ‘EM JOE!!

Oh give it a rest

Just because you’re afraid of trump , you’re not telling the felons Donald trump has pardoned 🤔

Heaven forbid we “undercut faith in the justice system”. The system really has been effective lately.

A mess, not a mass? from the afghan start to the pardon end, playboy Joes left over.

For sure, they are selling America out

Oh, they won't do that... the Washington Post is STATE MEDIA for MAGA... they are going to be pushing the narrative that Trump is 100% correct to fire Wray and appoint a loyalist with no respect for the US Constitution.... and they'll endorse internment camps when the time comes.

Apparently these are the new rules of the American justice system. Don't start clutching pearls when everyone else starts playing by them.

Any Democrat who said that THIS will "undercut faith in the justice system" at this point should be sidelined and primaried. We simply can't afford to indulge that degree of fawning timidity, given what's ahead of us.

Pullleaze. This is one of the STUPID ways that WAPO is losing subscribers (like me). Quit normalizing Trump! Biden protected his son. Get over it already. You’re searching.

Tooo FUCKING late WAPO. The right time to discuss what the president can and can’t do was 6 months ago. Liberal hang wringing that we can capitulate into make Trump a good person is a bad fucking joke. One we all learned in 1938.

You think a man who accepted money for pardons, is nominating cabinet positions & ambassadorships to anyone offering him personal &/or financial support will be tainted by Hunter’s pardon? Or a Justice system that has already given him permission to do whatever he wants can be further tainted? Hah!

Too bad people bitching. He could; he did. Go fuck yourself.

WP, shut up.

Undercutting Faith in the Justice system would be giving full immunity to an insurrectionist then putting them in power

Is WAPO not paying attention, or purposely spinning?

Washington post you along with the nyt can all just F off. Joe can do whatever he wants so says SCOTUS so I wouldn’t object if he arrested Trump and all his nominees as clear and present dangers to USA declaring he wasn’t going anywhere.

Me too.

Thanks, but I'm good.

Sold the pass. Craven u turn. Destroying his legacy and our futures by giving Trump a free bi-partisan pass to unIimited corruption.

Tell me you’re all-in for the dictator-elect, without telling me you’re all-in.🤦🏼‍♀️ You affirm yet again why I canceled WaPo. Where is wall-to-wall coverage of convicted felon Trump & his unqualified rogues gallery of cabinet picks? cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_ful...

Fuck the pious crowd decrying this. Do something or shut up. Think biden should do more outrageous stuff on this level honestly.

And yet weirdly you and they haven't written much about Trump's appointment of his father-in-law -- whom he pardoned last term -- as ambassador to France. It's almost as if these parties aren't engaging in good faith.

No one cares except the people who ironically have no problem with Trump killing his own Federal indictments and felony charges.

Biden should issue blanket pardons for everyone on dump's retribution list.

Did we really expect him not to pardon his son in the waning weeks of his lame duck presidency? I’m pretty sure every parent would do this. We expect more from Presidents, but they’re still human. If he’d have won reelection, he’d probably have left it alone until the end of his second term.

Click bait.

America justice system is a joke anyway, let the age of tyrant begins with the rule of corruption reigns.

Mounting criticism from what legit people? Trump appointing Cash Patel to head the FBI made Biden’s change of heart a lot easier.

A number Democrats need to kiss where the sun don't shine.

Hunter Biden’s incarceration was proof enough the justice system was already corrupt — thus the pardon.

We already lost that faith.

Facing mounting criticism from who, exactly? Are “some Democrats expressing concern”? Thanks for the news bulletin. I think we have a lot bigger things to be “concerned” about @washingtonpost.com

“Undercut faith in the justice system”….Trump gets away with pretty much everything but Bidens a bad guy for protecting his son. Get the fuck outta here.

In normal times some concern would be warranted. But when a narcissistic, vengeful, sex offender, & insurrectionist is headed into the Oval Office, Biden did the right thing. He should pardon everyone on DonOld’s hit list. Save them legal fees.

This is why people are not reading the Washington Post. They sound more like the National Enquirer!!!

Prediction: Joe Biden will issue sweeping pardon for his entire family covering everything since 1972.

With FAT DonOld's Banana Republic about to take over he had to. Gym Jordan and GomerComer couldn't get a bit of evidence to warrant a conviction, but refused to end the investigation. What do you think would happen if Patel has the FBI and Bondi has the justice. Sorry not sorry at all.

To suggest that *everything* that is about to happen in the next four years is Joe Biden’s fault because he loves his disproportionately persecuted son and has the power to help him is peak gaslighting. No. Everything is about to turn to shit because of King Trump and president-elect Musk.

This take is such bullshit, and I'm not sure what Democrats you're listening to, but no one I know or follow shares this sentiment. Trump pardoned all his law breaking sycophants. He promises to pardon the Jan 6 traitors and to use the justice system to persecute journalists and federal employees.

Democracy is dead. And WaPo helped choke it out with drivel like this.

If Biden had not won the election in 2020, Hunter would not have been prosecuted so unjustly. If Hunter was not Biden’s son, he would not have been prosecuted so unjustly. If Biden had failed to pardon Hunter that would have been unjust.

Joe doesn’t care and I find that refreshing.

Way to go Joe!

News Flash , Trump is going to subvert it either way. I am waiting for the preemptive pardons to stop them from going after Cheney, Milley, Kelly, the press…..pardon all to stop them from doing something other then their jobs

Nope, this was a good move. Use this to highlight the rampant corruption and nepotism in the Republican Party's leadership, thanks.

Trump may be jealous because he realizes he might well pardon criminals like Bannon and Stone but forget to pardon his own sons and daughters.

Hey @washingtonpost.com: stop creating news with "X faces criticism about Y" template. If we look we can find criticism of anything. Your headline could also be "Biden congratulated for using pardon after years-long abuse of justice system by Republicans; thwarts Trump revenge plans."

When the plan is to weaponize the Justice system for revenge- which trump has repeatedly said- wtf did you expect? Faith in Justice has already been undercut.

Fuck off wapo

The fact that the leader of the seditious conspiracy to stage a coup to keep himself in power, and then steal and lie about top secret documents, is not only walking around freely but about to retake the WH is what has "undercut faith in the justice system". Wake the fuck up.

Mounting criticism from republicans who forgot all of trump’s pardons. Fixed the headline for ya.

Any elected democrats saying that would be better off fillng a bill to reform the pardon power instead of kvetching about norms and optics.

Facing criticism from the hypocritical pearl-clutching ignorant right? Who cares. They need to look in the mirror. They just voted a twice-impeached, found liable for sexual assault, insurrectionist and CONVICTED FELON into the White House.

*Yawn* It would not be the first or the last controversial pardon. Buckle up for the new guy if the media is concerned about “norms”.

Just STFU WaPo Bezos bozo paper now

Here's those pearls you ordered for your clutching.

no one cares

Here’s the thing: IDGAF.

Hahaha! What a joke. What faith in the justice system? You can’t lose what isn’t there.

Exactly WHAT does Biden have to do to convince you overpaid transcriptionists that he has the best interests of the country at heart? He TWICE stood aside for more "electable" candidates and watched them lose races he would have won. Let him die with his kid by his side, for Christ's sake!

Because THIS single act tipped the scales of faith in the justice system.

good ol' WaPo, brushing up on their sieg heiling erasures of recent history, ie, the details of the hunter biden frame-up of the past decade.

The promise was political from the get-go and should never have been taken seriously. By foreclosing Hunter's access to the clemency system available to all other Americans, it presented a clear violation of the Constitution's equal-protection clause. Let's go Dark Brandon!

A Democrat does not have the ability to defense President Biden's pardon of Hunter is impossible to win a campaign against any MAGA candidate.

How can you say there is "mounting criticism" and imply it is from Democrats when your very own article says only "a few" Democrats expressed criticism and you quote only two?

The media did this, you frightened little greedy pigs. You're already owned-you obey in advance. But, choices have consequences. "Journalists or editors who failed to follow these instructions could be fired or sent to a concentration camp." Educate yourselves. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

Who cares ? Trump is a convicted felon and sex offender and shouldn’t be able to be president for gods sake!!

@washingtonpost.com you can lick my left n*tt to make my right n*tt jealous. Y’all are totally complicit in getting that orange Nazi elected. So spare us your righteous indignation.

Only democrats have agency, right? Your owner has killed your reputation in a month. Good luck.

Come on. There was a settlement. Then, suddenly, it was swept off the table. By magic? Come on! At this point, if he wanted his son to be left at peace, it was the only thing he could do. Can you imagine what the Trump banana republic would have done to him?

They may use Hunter’s pardon as justification, but they don’t need it to gallop on and attempt to fulfill their agenda. If Hunter hadn’t been pardoned, nothing would have changed.

Really? Most other, more reputable media outlets report that Democrats support his actions. Is "The Washington Post" a useless rag?

Right???

100%. Takes like this are the reason why I stopped my yearly subscription to the Washington Post, and why I won't renew it.