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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo surprise there, just read that trump said he would "look at the facts" when it comes to pardoning Diddy
Diddy has lots of money to buy one.
Who's next? Harvey Weinstein? R.Kelly? Derek Chauvin?
The party of law and order indeed.
Donald Trump, Asked About Pardoning Diddy, Says I Would Certainly Look at the Facts and That He Used to Really Like Me a Lot
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/trump-pardon-diddy-look-at-the-facts-1236414290/
CousinIT
(12,535 posts)tulipsandroses
(8,251 posts)I won't be surprised if he does, even if it is just a symbolic thing for MAGA.
MarineCombatEngineer
(18,060 posts)and even if he did pardon Chauvin, it would pertain to the state sentence.
It would be a huge disadvantage to pardon him of the Fed. charges, it would mean that Chauvin would be transferred from a Fed. prison to a less, shall we say, comfortable state facility to serve out the rest of his state sentence.
I can imagine that Chauvin is begging Been A Dick Donald to not pardon him so he can continue to serve his sentence in a more safe environment.
RockRaven
(19,365 posts)And there is no talk of a state one.
He's also been convicted by the state with a big sentence hanging over him. He's doing his federal time in a federal joint right now, and federal prisons have safer/better conditions on average than state prisons. Getting pardoned by The Convicted Felon might get Chauvin killed.
Rebl2
(17,738 posts)dutch777
(5,068 posts)doc03
(39,086 posts)dutch777
(5,068 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,834 posts)he requests.
Doodley
(11,912 posts)RockRaven
(19,365 posts)Efilroft Sul
(4,413 posts)CousinIT
(12,535 posts)madville
(7,847 posts)He said he hadnt been following the case and that a pardon had not been requested (which would make sense because theres not a conviction yet, most rich people that can afford a defense would rather try to beat the case and be found not guilty instead of getting a preemptive pardon and looking guilty).
Said hed look at the facts if one was requested, pretty bland answer for the most part.
I laughed when he was talking about updating some federal database that had taken years and a lot of money and they were trying to connect wires to copper lol, what?