Biden has been an outspoken critic of some of the pardons his predecessor issued during his first term as president.
In 2019, Biden attacked Trump for pardoning two US Army officers – one convicted and one awaiting trial – for war crimes in Afghanistan.
Biden said the then-president had betrayed “the rule of law, the values that make our country exceptional, and the men and women who proudly wear the uniform.”
Later in 2020, when Trump commuted the sentence of his informal adviser Roger Stone, Biden called his opponent “the most corrupt president in modern American history.”
More broadly, during his 2020 campaign, Biden accused Trump of undermining the attorney general position and politicizing the office.
“The attorney general is not the president’s lawyer. This is the people’s lawyer, – said Biden. – We have never seen anything similar to the prostitution of this position, as today.”
