'Lost Its Soul': Pulitzer Winner Blasts Washington Post's 'Unconscionable' Op-Ed On Joe Biden Vs Donald Trump Pardons
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1/24/2025 5:00:59 AM
(MENAFN- Live Mint) David Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize winner journalist who worked Washington Post for 48 years, criticised the newspaper for an op-ed it published on Tuesday about pardons signed by US President Donald trump and former President Joe Biden.
Maraniss expressed his frustration on the social media platform BlueSky, saying,“The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.
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The op-ed written by Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post was titled "Biden's pardons were disappointing. Trump 's are worse". It was published on January 21, just a day after Trump was sworn in as the US President. On the same day, the newspapaper published another opinion piece (Editorial Board) titled:“Pardons from Biden and Trump flout the rule of law.”
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But Maraniss' criticism was associated with an op-ed by Jason Willick,“The Biden-Trump pardons show collapsing executive restraint.” Accoridng to the Daily Guardian, the oped-ed compared how Trump and Biden used their pardon powers as president.
“It's debatable which president's abuse of the pardon power on Monday - Joe Biden's or Donald Trum 's - was more damaging,” Willick wrote, adding,“The root of the problem isn't the scope of the pardon power; it's the collapse of restraint on the exercise of executive power in general.”
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David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Pulitzer for national reporting in 1993 for his newspaper coverage of then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton.
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