Days after pardoning his son of a decade of federal crimes, outgoing President Joe Biden has pardoned 39 individuals involved in non-violent offenses and commuted the sentences of 1,500 others. The event marks the largest day of clemency in the history of the United States.
At this rate, Biden is going to release every Democrat criminal currently in jail or being prosecuted.
This is ridiculous.
Trump needs to pardon every J6er on day one. pic.twitter.com/iqaOLlwcoE
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) December 12, 2024
For comparison, incoming president Donald Trump pardoned 143 people and commuted the sentences of another 94 individuals during his first term in office.
“The President has issued more sentence commutations at this point in his presidency than any of his recent predecessors at the same point in their first terms,” the White House stated.
The commutation recipients have been serving at least one year under house arrest since the pandemic struck, and thousands of prisoners were released on the justification that it was to decongest prisons.
The president says the commutation recipients have fully rehabilitated and “reintegrated into their families and communities” and have “shown commitment to making their communities stronger and safer.” No insight on how he knows this.