The Trump folks had been going after Hunter Biden during the first Trump term, and when Joe Biden was elected he did the presidential thing and let the courts handle the essentially stage-managed case against his son (the special prosecutor in that was a Trump republican but he let it run its course). Now that Biden's leaving office Trump will continue to try to make an example of anyone who displeased him. Joe took the matter out of Trump's hands by pardoning his son, after saying he wouldn't. But as he was saying it I think no one imagined that Trump would be coming back to the White House and all justice is forgotten. I hope Biden is privately writing pardons for all of the Congressional folks who handled to January 6 hearings, because Trump has said he'll go after them also. Make it a pocket pardon - kept under wraps unless it becomes necessary to reveal it. I'm thinking Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Cassidy Hutchinson, and others. Other things he could do to really piss off Trump: commute the sentences of all of the federal death row prisoners and destroy the federal death house. Trump made a big deal of putting a lot of folks to death in his last six months. Biden could step down and make Harris the 47th president of the United States, if only for 2 months. Wouldn't Trump blow a gasket over that!
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