{"id":16176,"date":"2025-01-22T22:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16176"},"modified":"2025-01-22T22:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:24:06","slug":"biden-and-trump-show-presidents-how-to-abuse-clemency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16176","title":{"rendered":"Biden and Trump Show Presidents How To Abuse Clemency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn&#8217;t be pardoned,&#8221; J.D. Vance, now the vice president,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vance-trump-pardons-capitol-riot-31308a54ebac4ef6783662f595262dec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;last week.&nbsp;But that &#8220;obvious&#8221; caveat was notably missing from the indiscriminate pardons Trump actually issued, which he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a>&nbsp;were necessary to remedy &#8220;a grave national injustice&#8221; and start &#8220;a process of national reconciliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such a reconciliation is impossible when the president is willing to excuse political violence as long as it is perpetrated by his supporters.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/01\/22\/biden-and-trump-show-presidents-how-to-abuse-clemency\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/01\/22\/biden-and-trump-show-presidents-how-to-abuse-clemency<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn&#8217;t be pardoned,&#8221; J.D. Vance, now the vice president, said last week. But that &#8220;obvious&#8221; caveat was notably missing from the indiscriminate pardons Trump actually issued, which he claimed were necessary to remedy &#8220;a grave national injustice&#8221; and start &#8220;a process of national reconciliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such a reconciliation is impossible when the president is willing to excuse political violence as long as it is perpetrated by his supporters.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/01\/22\/biden-and-trump-show-presidents-how-to-abuse-clemency\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,1104,864,375,1143,1138,280,431,660,221,1135,780,933,1134,201,170],"class_list":["post-16176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-biden","tag-capitol","tag-capitol-building","tag-criminal-justice","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-insurrection","tag-joe-biden","tag-pardon","tag-riot","tag-rule-of-law","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16177,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176\/revisions\/16177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}