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tulipsandroses

(8,251 posts)
Fri May 30, 2025, 04:27 PM May 2025

No 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/

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tulipsandroses

(8,251 posts)
2. No. not yet. There has been talk of him doing so. Thankfully he still has to serve state time
Fri May 30, 2025, 04:31 PM
May 2025

I won't be surprised if he does, even if it is just a symbolic thing for MAGA.

MarineCombatEngineer

(18,060 posts)
10. He's talked about it, but hasn't yet
Fri May 30, 2025, 04:45 PM
May 2025

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)
11. Chauvin shouldn't want a Trump pardon unless he already got a state one.
Fri May 30, 2025, 04:47 PM
May 2025

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.

dutch777

(5,068 posts)
4. Facts were clear in many he pardoned recently and he pardoned them anyway. Not looking too hard, me thinks.
Fri May 30, 2025, 04:32 PM
May 2025

dutch777

(5,068 posts)
9. Wonder why they say "alternative facts" when "no facts" is shorter and more to the point.
Fri May 30, 2025, 04:45 PM
May 2025

sinkingfeeling

(57,834 posts)
5. The only facts TACO cares about are if the person likes him enough and if they will give him the amount of money
Fri May 30, 2025, 04:37 PM
May 2025

he requests.

madville

(7,847 posts)
14. I was listening while driving
Fri May 30, 2025, 04:54 PM
May 2025

He said he hadn’t been following the case and that a pardon had not been requested (which would make sense because there’s 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 he’d 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?

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