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BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 12:55 PM Jan 2021

Cannot accept that a criminal POTUS who started and encouraged a riot can pardon those involved

It is ridiculous.

This is not a fiefdom.

Its a thiefdom

No one is above the law seems to be an ideal not a reality if this travesty happens.

It simply cannot be allowed to happen.

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Cannot accept that a criminal POTUS who started and encouraged a riot can pardon those involved (Original Post) BSdetect Jan 2021 OP
So is he pardoning Antifa? mzmolly Jan 2021 #1
Heheh blm Jan 2021 #6
You can thank Moscow Mitch for that RainCaster Jan 2021 #2
I don't think he'll bother to pardon them. dawg day Jan 2021 #3
He won't but I love those crybabies asking for one. efhmc Jan 2021 #5
That Pardon Attorney on Last Word was almost gob-smacking. mackdaddy Jan 2021 #4
Not all laws. efhmc Jan 2021 #7
Now that he's been impeached for the same insurrection Qutzupalotl Jan 2021 #8
Good to know but hope they make that very clear before he tries. BSdetect Jan 2021 #10
means an impeachment is not covered, and only that stopdiggin Jan 2021 #11
That includes Princheska and Junior. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #9

mackdaddy

(1,526 posts)
4. That Pardon Attorney on Last Word was almost gob-smacking.
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 01:14 PM
Jan 2021

I am still reeling a bit from the implications with this Bastard in office for the next few days.

Basically the pardon power is as absolute as any monarch or emperor ever had. There are NO real limits on this.

The president has ABSOLUTE power to indemnify anyone or everyone from any and all US laws and prosecutions for any actions past, present, or future.

And when you have a Madman like Trump with this kind of extreme power, OMG.

He could literally pardon everyone for everything on 1/6. He could pardon every person in the entire federal prison system.

And this could take ANY recorded for. He could look into his cell phone camera video app, and record his pronouncement, and It is legally done.

Fuck everyone who ever had anything to do with putting this Psycho in office!

Qutzupalotl

(14,302 posts)
8. Now that he's been impeached for the same insurrection
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 01:16 PM
Jan 2021

I don't think he can pardon his co-conspirators. The Constitution says the power to pardon is broad “except in cases of impeachment.”

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