President Joe Biden says he is still considering whether to give pardons to people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he did not believe his decision to run for re-election paved the way for President-elect Donald Trump to win in 2024 and indicated he is still considering pre-emptive pardons for people whom Trump has targeted.

Partisans on both sides thought the choice was pretty easy to make, but in the end, the voters who decided this thing broke toward Donald Trump in an implicit acceptance of his conduct on January 6, 2021.

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It depends on some of the language and expectations that Trump broadcasts in the last couple days here as to what he’s going to do,” Biden told reporters at the White House

President Joe Biden dismissed the idea of pardoning himself as he considers using his clemency powers to protect critics of President-elect Donald Trump, who has promised to seek revenge when he returns to the White House on Jan.

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