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That's quite literally not a way out for these traitors. That will just give the individual states easily winnable cases against anyone that accepts a pardon.
If the non-fascists take back Congress, we can change the current laws & simply extradite the rest of them to the Hague. And we've now seen how fast the federal government can move when it wants to.
The response to this needs to be a resounding, "LOL, no," from whatever administration comes next. The constitution gives the President the power of the pardon? Well, if gives Congress power of the purse, but we let him ignore that. The Supreme Court will intercede? One of them is married to a J6er, another one is openly taking bribes, and ar least three of them committed perjury when they told Congress said they wouldn't overturn precedent. Our country can't continue without accountability.
Promises like his tax returns, the Epstein Files, payments to contractors, payments to rally organizers, that kind of a promise? Or the promises to stay faithful to his 3 wives, of which he cheated on the prior one with the future one.
Thwump has never understood the definition of the word "promise".
Its the same vibe as that one kid in school saying "swear on my life on my LIFE that means if Im lying ill actually die i swear on my MOMS LIFE too im super serious"
He could do something really funny and have a heart attack before pardoning anyone.
They would have a weekend at Bernie's before they would let the public know.
As soon as he kicks the bucket there will be a massive power vacuum and everyone will change their policies to align with Vance. Nightmare scenario tbh, I hope he lives til the day he goes lame duck.
You had me at heart attack
And citizens are supposed to pay taxes to support these criminals?
Well, true Americans, not the woke American left or antifa /s
I guess if they do they feel represented by them, isn't that their whole thing?
How is this a "bombshell"? Like really? Was this not assumed? Hell we don't even know if this shit is technically illegal, immoral yes completely.
It's not illegal, unfortunately.
The bombshell is: His staff, despite interacting with the guy daily, believed him, I guess...
Well why not? He likely will throw pardons around (it likely makes him hard to abuse the system). At this point they kinda have to go for broke, they are "all in" so to speak.
Has he ever kept a promise, even accidentally?
To help out his friends and sycophants? Yes? I mean he pardoned those Jan 6 people already, and they did not even directly work for him.
I still want SOMEBODY in his corrupt regime to end up in prison.
Sorry best we can seem to do is the collapse of the american empire.
Just feed it into my veins!
Openly manipulating markets and now betting sites for personal gain. They have already embezzled billions. Crypto scams up the wazzo.
The grift knows no end.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, dismissed Trump’s comments in a statement, saying, “The Wall Street Journal should learn to take a joke, however, the President’s pardon power is absolute.”
It’s just a joke, bro! Unless…
It's not like he's blanket pardoned over a thousand hard criminals that attacked federal officers and property or anything. I'm sure this is nothing.
Trump has no sense of humor, he doesn't know how to joke
Y'all are the actual government of an entire country. You shouldn't be making fucking jokes in the first place especially when it pertains to the law. And if this was a joke, it's not even a very good one.
The Donvict operates this way, testing the waters to see how far he can go and see what might stick.
my kid reverts to "im just joking" when they know they fucked up, and they are 8. is the potus an 8yo?
There is a pretty significant chance that Trump won't keep his word.
And that's if he doesn't just die before he has a chance to.
It’s almost like they’re criminals or something.
I’d love it if the media would stop reporting that Trump doing the worst fucking thing imaginable is a “bombshell.”
So what. He promises a lot of things he doesn't deliver. Staffers know that best of anyone.
They should, but so many still get caught out thinking they were special and that surely after 79 years, they'd be the person Trump didn't screw over
I'm not sure they are thinking that. I bet they think they are the one person who can somehow ride the wave that it trump and find a way off it and still win. Like how a golddigger is hoping the guy will die soon. I mean, while hw is a grifter, he is a sloppy one. So the people around him end up recieving plenty of the spoiles of his grifting (points to stock market data right before trump does something that affects it greatly). So even if he does turn on them, they usualy come out rather rich.
They can't be pardoned if people get upset enough and remove them
A pardon doesn't magically suspend physics, that's for sure.
Bullet goes in, bullet goes out. You can't explain that