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Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by munk-a on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:08PM (#45687957)
Trump is miles ahead of other administrations in abusing it but as far back as my political awareness reaches (the Clinton admin) there have been clear awful examples like Marc Rich[1]. I certainly have a political lean but there are some really indefensible pardons on each side.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich

Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:35PM (#45688240)
Did you miss all the Biden pardons, including unprecedented pardons for crimes they may commit?
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by munk-a on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:36PM (#45688254)
No, I'm well aware of and disapprove of a number of them - this is still worse.
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by ugh123 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:28PM (#45689270)
Are you equating Trump's pardons and commutations to Bidens? For review, Biden's were largely for non-violent drug offenders and preemptive pardons for people like Anthony Fauci and federal employees prosecuting Jan 6 defendants and the like. Save for his pardon of his son Hunter (who's own prosecution was littered with politics), Biden's were largely pedestrian.
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by polski-g on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:02PM (#45689919)
Biden commuted many, many murderers and rapists -- not just "non-violent offenders". It was not pedestrian. Here are two: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-12-24/biden-co...
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by amanaplanacanal on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:05PM (#45689945)
Commuted from death to life in prison. Not pardoned. That's a whole different thing.
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by polski-g on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:21PM (#45690406)
Parent post did not limit the activities to pardons only, it included both.
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by twixfel on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:41AM (#45692361)
No, the parent did.
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by cosmicgadget on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:07PM (#45689549)
Do you think he would have issued those if anyone else was succeeding him? Has Trump validated those concerns?

The only reason Trump hasn't challenged the constitutionality of the pre-emptive pardons is because he indends to do the same.

Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by Volundr on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:13PM (#45689593)
Yes actually. As far as I'm aware even the President can't pardon crimes someone may commit in the future. Can you point out the ones where he did that?