> Biden pardoned his son for a petty crime.
Again no, Biden issued a sweeping pardon for his Son that pardons him of all crimes, known and unknown. Hell, it was a pardon so broad that even left leaning pundits like Politico publicly wrote about it [1]. It took me all of one second to confirm this. Why lie?
[1]: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/02/hunter-biden-pardon...
Biden issued sweeping pardons to expected targets of Trump's anticipated (and fairly explicitly signalled) partisan weaponization of DoJ, which is an effective and costly political punishment even if it never secured a conviction, but so long as a suitable pretext can be found.
As we now see that being executed after mass partisan purges and, in several cases (sone where this is already adjudicated, more where it is pending) illegal appointments because that was the only way yo get or keep willing hacks in position to carry out the prosecutions, its arguable the only thing Biden did wrong in that regard was not doing it widely enough.
> Biden issued sweeping pardons to expected targets of Trump's anticipated
A suitable pretext meaning a crime.
Biden's son had committed and was convicted of a petty crime that is basically never enforced.
The pardon was sweeping.
You seem to be arguing semantics. I care about what his son actually did. If someone is sitting in jail for a marijuana conviction, and gets a blanket pardon, I am going to say they were pardoned for the marijuana conviction, not for some theorized other crime.
You don't get a blanket pardon for a marijuana conviction. You get a pardon for that exact crime. No one gets a blanket pardon. That is my point.
Because, again, Trump was explicit he was going to go on a political witch hunt to target his enemies. A blanket pardon is your best defense against manufactured charges in that case - see all of the current cases being brought against his enemies.
I don't really understand why this is a difficult concept for you to grasp.