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Nevilledog

(55,137 posts)
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 01:36 PM Jan 2021

Yeah....so let's listen to the insurrectionist begging for a pardon



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Yeah....so let's listen to the insurrectionist begging for a pardon (Original Post) Nevilledog Jan 2021 OP
I love that these criminals are explicitly tying themselves to Trump. LOL n/t servermsh Jan 2021 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2021 #2
This should be used against dump at his trial. onecaliberal Jan 2021 #3
He going to pardon them all... N_E_1 for Tennis Jan 2021 #4
Maybe not. Happy Hoosier Jan 2021 #7
He has been impeached for this very thing, so he cannot pardon obamanut2012 Jan 2021 #8
It's a bad move but... N_E_1 for Tennis Jan 2021 #9
That would be an admission of his own guilt. Crunchy Frog Jan 2021 #10
That can be his epitaph. TheBlackAdder Jan 2021 #5
They go in to terrorize when Trump tells them to, and go home when Trump tells them to. BusyBeingBest Jan 2021 #6

Response to Nevilledog (Original post)

N_E_1 for Tennis

(13,175 posts)
4. He going to pardon them all...
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 01:42 PM
Jan 2021

I think we’ll be vomiting when we witness the pardons he hands out

Happy Hoosier

(9,628 posts)
7. Maybe not.
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 01:45 PM
Jan 2021

Now that the impeachment trial is being held after Biden is in office, he has to be more careful. But hard to tell with that mean, since he is completely nuts.

N_E_1 for Tennis

(13,175 posts)
9. It's a bad move but...
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 01:59 PM
Jan 2021
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-pardon-capitol-riot-supporters-20210112.html

***snip***

First, the president can, in theory, pardon everyone who entered the Capitol Building, right now. He does not need to know their names. He does not need to know what they did. It doesn’t matter if they have been prosecuted or even identified yet. President Jimmy Carter summarily pardoned all draft dodgers of the Vietnam War — whether or not they had been arrested. Carter’s attorney general was ordered to halt all investigations of people not yet even charged. President Gerald Ford also granted a “full, free, and absolute pardon [to] Richard Nixon for all offenses … which he … may have committed or taken part in.” Presidents can pardon “all [federal] offenses,” before they are even investigated, as long as the conduct has actually occurred.
The president can pardon those who rioted at the Capitol. As ill-advised as this move may be, here’s why he might.


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Crunchy Frog

(28,299 posts)
10. That would be an admission of his own guilt.
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 02:38 PM
Jan 2021

I doubt he'd endanger himself to help a bunch of "lowlifes".

BusyBeingBest

(9,173 posts)
6. They go in to terrorize when Trump tells them to, and go home when Trump tells them to.
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 01:43 PM
Jan 2021

OK buddy, thanks, that's all we needed from ya!

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