• BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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    15 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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      15 days ago

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

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      15 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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        15 days ago

        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.