To qualify for a full pardon, Alice Johnson had to give a speech praising Trump at the RNC

[octoberlib]

Trump was just on MSNBC signing the pardon.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Has he done any pardons that have gone through the standard application process?

[octoberlib]

2. I have no earthly idea. Wouldn't be surprised if he hasn't.

[The_Counsel]

11. If I Had to Guess...

...I’d say Trump had no idea there even IS a pardon process.

[IggleDuer]

12. Sure, with dead people.

N/T

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. Susan B. Anthony didn't have an application in the hopper. Who are you thinking of?

[IggleDuer]

17. He just pardoned her without an application for pardon (and Jack Johnson, (IIRC))

Pardoning dead people with or without an application, is just a cheap publicity stunt.

[bullimiami]

3. now that the commutation is done. how about a big "psych" from Alice.

Otherwise I guess we can add sellout to her resume after drug-kingpin.

[octoberlib]

7. I don't blame Alice. Anybody in her position would have jumped at a commutation.

It's just that Trump doesn't do anything out of the goodness of his heart or because it's the right thing. He demands something in return that will benefit him always.

[Sogo]

4. Quid Pro Quo?

[AleksS]

5. Is that true? Because selling pardons has GOT to be a crime...

Not that anyone would ever dream of doing anything about it in any event.

[octoberlib]

6. Don't know if it's true but Trump doesn't do anything out of the goodness of his heart.

[AleksS]

9. That's true for sure!

Yup. There's always some kickback. He's always going to get his "cut." I just hope he's getting senile enough that he asks for the bribe on the record. He's not a smart man.

[SheltieLover]

8. This!👆

[Retrograde]

13. So? Concerned Susie said that impeachment taught him a lesson

and that lesson was that he can do whatever he wants to with no repercussions from a Republican senate.

[uponit7771]

16. right

[radius777]

10. Wish Alice asked him about how he discriminated

against black apartment applicants by putting a 'C' for colored, how he demonized the Central Park 5, how he regularly used the N word according to his niece, how he puts brown kids in cages, etc.

She's a prop being used to appease the conscience of white moderates. 'See, Trump is not a racist.'

[maxrandb]

14. Who wants to bet if this pardon

required a Non-disclosure Agreement?

[moondust]

18. "I would like you to do us a favor, though."

[struggle4progress]

19. 18 USC 201. Bribery of public officials

... (b) Whoever .. .
(2) being a public official .. , directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for:
(A) being influenced in the performance of any official act ...

shall be fined under this title or not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than fifteen years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States ...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201

[NightWatcher]

20. This is the woman that Kanye West's wife (Kim K) advocated for...

So she gets a pardon and Kanye is running to syphon votes away from Biden? Sounds a little illegal.