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Related: About this forumTrump considers pardon for ranchers who inspired Malheur refuge occupation, report says
The matriarch of the Hammond ranching family said Wednesday she hasn't heard if President Donald Trump is considering pardons for her husband and son, whose imprisonment led to the 2016 armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
But Susie Hammond said, "I have a sense that things are moving forward and I have faith in our president. If anyone is going to help them, he'd be the one."
Hammond said she's getting a lot of questions about it. "Something must have just broke loose because I have three phones ringing," she said.
A Washington Post reporter contacted her Tuesday and said he understood that the White House was considering the pardons and wanted to learn what she knew.
Read more: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/06/trump_considers_pardon_for_ran.html
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(56,262 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Ignorant, angry American nazis with guns.
murielm99
(33,085 posts)executive orders. And they did not always work out as planned.
MontanaMama
(24,751 posts)He wants to turn this country upside down. Make no mistake. We havent seen anything yet. He will pardon the worst of the worst.
DonCoquixote
(13,980 posts)"do a fort Sumter if they impeach me!"
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Now i believe it.
There will be violence. A lit if it.
I only wonder where the military will stand.
SamKnause
(14,945 posts)He wants to tear this country apart.
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