Biden pardoned his entire family.

Kind of hard for dems to complain about Trump now.

Dan,

"AFTER Trump publicly threatened them."

That's actually immaterial.

Biden did it.

Applying justification after the fact doesn't really change that.

Dan,

It's immaterial for what I said.

Biden pardoned his family.

It will be hard to attack Trump for doing something similar.

Are you suggesting maybe Trump played Biden?

He threatened Biden thinking he might do something like he did.

Then Trump waited for the right moment to play his hand?

Dan,

I believe Trump probably would exploit people's weaknesses.

Trump likes to win.

He isn't someone I would want to go up against.

Dan,

"If you think Biden pardoning his family AFTER the PRESIDENT-ELECT had publicly threatened lawfare against them is immaterial, you're a moron."

It's not that lawfare is insignificant.

Trump has been dealing with politically motivated accusations and prosecutions for years. That's lawfare.

What changed is that Democrats largely considered it acceptable when directed at Trump, but now suddenly it's unacceptable when it's aimed at Biden's family.

So Biden responded by pardoning them preemptively.

That makes it difficult to act morally outraged about Trump's DOJ tactics while simultaneously defending Biden's pardons.

My point was simply that once Biden pardoned his family, it severely weakened criticism of Trump on this issue.

Dan,

"The definition of lawfare is prosecuting someone for an action ANYONE ELSE COULD DO WITHOUT FEAR OF LEGAL REPERCUSSIONS."

Using your definition, you're essentially saying Biden and his family were subjected to lawfare, but Trump wasn't?

I don't agree with your definition, and neither do several that I found.
At its core, lawfare is the use of the legal system as a weapon to intimidate, damage, or politically target opponents.

Honestly, I thought you were going to come back from a different angle.

I figured you'd argue it's only lawfare against Biden because "Biden and his family aren't guilty of anything...it's all trumped up while Trump actually is a criminal" or something along those lines.

(I loved how trumped up worked in so well.)

Chan,

"Oh goodie, another thread for BJ to practice his self flagellation."

That's actually funny.

But why self-flagellate when there's a line of eager participants willing to do it for you?

Saves effort on my part, and we both get something out of it.

Zed,

"I interact with you, BILL, because you've helped me a conceive a whole new slant on the nature of evil."

It is quite interesting the way liberal leaning and conservative leaning people are able to look at the world so differently.

Perhaps the difference between me and you is that I see good and bad virtues in both.

You, apparently, can only see anything positive with liberals, while conservatives are automatically cast as villains.