Democrats Sure Do Have A Lot Of Criminal Friends
I & I Editorial Board
January 21, 2025
In their latest email, our friends at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, which has become an indispensable daily source of valuable information and sharp commentary, included a chart of presidential pardons going back to Harry S. Truman.
Until Joe Biden, pardons were almost entirely reserved for people who had actually been convicted of crimes, but even without those pre-crime pardons, Biden leads the pack by an eye-popping margin, with 8,064 in his four years. Nobody comes anywhere close. Trump pardoned just 237 in his first term.
Given that Biden barely knew what day it was, we suspect that the tsunami of pardons reflects the ability of Democrats to slip them on Biden’s desk knowing he’d sign whatever was put in front of him.
But take a closer look at the chart, and what do you see?
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