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Even more disturbing, Biden also granted clemency to Shanlin Jin, who was convicted after “police found more than 47,000 images and videos of child pornography in his computer.” One such video allegedly showed “an adult male sexually assaulting a female infant,” according to The Dallas Morning News.

Washington DC - MAGA Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene recently shared her disgust after President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of a sex offender, but it turns out she didn't exactly get all her facts straight.

On Thursday, Greene shared a post on X boldly stating, "Democrats really are the party of pedophiles."
The Georgia representative included a clip of an interview she did with 60 Minutes back in April 2023, in which she said Democrats and Biden support "children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries," which left host Leslie Stahl stunned.
She also attached a post from another user, which claimed that one of the 1,499 people that President Biden granted commutations to earlier that day was Jin Shanlin – a former student at Southern Methodist University in Texas who pled guilty in 2021 to possessing child pornography.
Greene is a well-known conspiracy theorist and former believer in QAnon – a pro-Donald Trump group that believes a secret society of politicians and celebrities runs massive pedophilia rings across the country.
She has been criticized for spreading false claims and misinformation, and casually slinging harsh insults like "pedophiles," at her political rivals.
Unfortunately, Greene has a tendency to not see the bigger picture – or choose to ignore it – which appears to be the case here as well.

According to The Financial Times, Jin (26) admitted during his trial to possessing and distributing "more than 600 images and videos of child pornography."
It was revealed that he and his family were "connected to influential members of the Communist party in China."
Since his arrest, the Chinese government had led "tireless efforts" to get Jin and two others released from US custody, as they argued they were wrongfully contained.
Biden ended up agreeing to a prisoner swap with China, where he granted Jin and the two others clemency in exchange for three US prisoners. In each statement, Biden wrote that clemency was being granted because it was within the "national interest."
So while Biden did grant Jin clemency, he had done so on November 22 – not on Thursday, as Greene and others claimed.

In the comments section of Greene's post, many users pointed out that she has had no problem standing by former Congressman Matt Gaetz, who has faced allegations of sex trafficking a minor.

A doctoral student was sentenced to eight years in federal prison on Thursday for accessing thousands of child pornography images and videos, with some files depicting sexual assault of infants and toddlers.

U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant in Sherman handed Shanlin Jin, 24, the sentence and ordered him to pay restitution to seven victims who requested it, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Jin pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography in December 2020 after a forensic investigation discovered he had downloaded more than 47,000 images and videos onto his computer.

Events leading to Jin’s sentencing began at the end of 2020 when undercover agents downloaded child pornography from a user who authorities later identified as Jin. In January 2021, The Collin County Sheriff’s Office then executed a search warrant of a home in Allen that the Chinese national had been renting.

Jin initially denied having viewed child pornography, telling police he mostly used his computer to play video games, watch anime, and work on school projects. However, officers also found child pornography playing on the defendant’s laptop when they entered the house to execute the search warrant.

“Right now, on your computer is a video of a 10-to-13-year-old girl being sexually assaulted,” an investigator told him.

The investigator then asked Jin about the youngest person he had seen in pornographic images.

“Uh, I’m not sure, but maybe 16, 17, or 14?” Jin replied before the investigator told him, “Okay. We call that child pornography.” The investigator had already watched the young man download child pornography for nearly two months.

The student was later questioned in a police vehicle outside the home before he admitted to viewing child pornography images and videos. Jin’s attorney then requested that a judge dismiss his client’s initial statement to police because he didn’t have an attorney present.

Prosecutors, however, argued that the defendant was not in custody when he gave the statements and described him as a “highly intelligent, educated man” who was fluent in English and understood what was happening at the time. The judges ruled in favor of the prosecutors.

An agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified in court that Jin was in the U.S. on a student visa that expired in June 2021.

Court records also showed that Jin had previously reported having suicidal thoughts while studying for his bachelor’s degree. In a letter to the presiding judge seeking leniency, Jin’s mother wrote that the pandemic made him unable to reunite with his family in China.

“In January 2020, Shanlin left China for Dallas. Ever since then, his immunity (sic) system was impaired due to the continuous influence of mental pressure, such as loneliness, anxiety, and fear,” Lixin He, Jin’s mother, wrote in the letter. “I realized Shanlin Jin’s wrongdoings of downloading and obtaining illegal and harmful videos. I also encouraged him to plead guilty over the phone.”

Jin’s attorney, Paul Saputo, said it is unfortunate that child pornography images are rampant on the peer-to-peer (p2p) networks, among other legitimate files.

“You can run afoul of the law by clicking on the wrong links,” he said.

Saputo added that his client cooperated with investigators, accepted his sentence, and regrets his actions.

Court records show Jin, born in Beijing, was scheduled to receive his bachelor’s degree from the “Special Class for the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China” just before turning 19.

In 2016, the student moved to the U.S., where he obtained a master’s degree in economics from Temple University in Philadelphia. He then moved to North Texas to begin a Ph.D. program in economics at Southern Methodist University, court records showed.

Jin, who was suspended from campus at SMU following his arrest, will likely be deported after serving his jail time.