• Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    You missed a few.

    1. Pardon himself for all federal crimes
    2. Appoint Aileen Cannon as AG.
    3. Order Cannon to fire Jack Smith.
    4. Pardon Steve Bannon
    5. Make up some new federal power to somehow interfere in state cases to have those charges dismissed. And keep in mind he has a united Congress and Supreme Court that will just make it legal by some twisted interpretation of the Supremacy clause or something.
    6. Have the rulings on the E. Jean Carroll case reversed and get his money back.
    7. Make Truth Social the official method of communcation for Presidential matters, causing his stocks to skyrocket and for him to rake in billions.
    8. Leave any Cabinet positions related to education unfilled and begin the shutdown of the Department of Education
    9. Appoint RFK to oversee healthcare, eliminating Obamacare and banning about every medical breakthrough we’ve made in the modern age, causing the return of serious diseases such as measles.
    10. Advocate for a national abortion ban.
    11. Begin the implementation of Project 2025.
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      17 days ago

      But a pardon is not an absolution. To accept a pardon you also accept the crime that you did.

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        17 days ago

        Yeah, but he and his supporters don’t understand that technicality or gaf about it.

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        17 days ago

        How cute…you think that norms still apply.

        Trump will self-pardon, say he did nothing wrong, and pardon the J6 rioters unconditionally. And the same Congress who spent the day in a basement fearing for their own lives will stand up and applaud, and the Supreme Court will rubber stamp it with one hand while fellating him with the other.

        This is the Trump revenge tour 2.0. Trump does what he wants, and everybody just bends the law around it. Traditional norms are simply ignored. If you think it was bad last time, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

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          He won’t pardon the insurrectionists. He already got what he wanted out of them. He doesn’t pay bills he owes to the little guy.

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      17 days ago

      No way he makes Cannon AG, that’s a job that requires actual competence to get anything done. See also: Merrick Garland.

      He’s going to give Cannon Thomas’s spot on the Supreme Court in 6-12 months when he announces his retirement.

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        17 days ago

        See also Bill Barr.

        You think Trump gives a shit if she does anything beyond sit there and play with herself all day? She’s there to take his orders and that’s it.

        Though I do agree, a SCOTUS seat is also a very real possibility. But she’s getting one or the other.

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          Grinding the DoJ to a halt isn’t the goal this time. He needs someone competent enough to wield the agency like a hammer in order to go after rivals and punish dissidents. He may not be smart enough to pick which candidate can actually achieve that, but failure will be noticed.