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Trump, Biden on his way out, pardoned much of his family who hadn't been charged yet for anything.

Trump, after he was inaugurated, pardoned everybody involved in the January 6th insurrection.

Everybody who was convicted of one thing or another, including the ones convicted of the most violent crimes and insurrection. We are going to talk down with Royal Oaks, who is the ABC News legal analyst and discussed this pardon situation.

Royale, how are you?

I'm doing well, but boy, yeah,

pardons are just huge in the news. Not only the family members by Biden, but now as you're

reporting, I mean, about 1,500 pardons or commutations were given to the rioters. Of those 14

were commutations for far-right groups of the proud boys

and the Oathkeepers militia. As you say, some of them are really violent crimes. So there's

probably going to be some political blowback, John. I'm guessing that, you know, the American

public is probably going to, at the end of the day, give this a big ho-hum,

because so many have come to regard the politicization of the criminal justice systems,

well, that's business as usual.

You know, start with the Russia collusion and then the two impeachments and then the four criminal

cases against Donald Trump, some of which were, I mean, let's face it, you know,

would Alvin Bragg, the progressive DA in Manhattan have indicted Bernie Sanders, if Bernie Sanders

had a, you know, a fling with a progressive stripper?

Nobody believes that.

You know, it wouldn't happen.

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