Last night, Axios scooped the world that our Stable Jenius was planning on mass pardons:
President Trump isn’t just accepting pardon requests but blindly discussing them “like Christmas gifts” to people who haven’t even asked, sources with direct knowledge of the conversations tell Axios’ Jonathan Swan.
Behind the scenes: Trump recently told one adviser he was going to pardon “every person who ever talked to me,” suggesting an even larger pardon blitz to come. As with most Trump conversations, the adviser wasn’t sure how seriously to take the president — although Trump gave no indication he was joking.
And as we know, Lord Damp Nut IS a joke, but he never jokes. He doesn’t have a sense of humor.
Trump has also interrupted conversations to spontaneously suggest that he add the person he’s speaking with to his pardon list, these sources said.
- The offers haven’t always been welcome.
- One source felt awkward because the president was clearly trying to be helpful but the adviser didn’t believe they had committed any crimes.
- The adviser also believed being on the list could hurt their public persona.
- The White House declined to comment.
Crazy Emperor Covidgula could be the first president to cause the idea of “unlimited pardon power” to be seriously questioned and challenged (and, perhaps, severely restricted). One can hope, right?
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just in time to apply it to a Dim
The GOP will LOVE that…they’re going to eagerly support every effort to restrict the power of the Executive branch…at least for four years…
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Just to be clear…the solution isn’t to restrict the powers of the presidency, it’s to not elect amoral gangsters to the position.
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Seriously BDR- you’d think that part would be understood- but now we know different. Jebus what a clusterfuck.
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he just assumes everyone is a criminal grifter traitor like he is.
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Sweet. Now that’s a benevolent dictator.
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I think this is just another example of LDN shouting “LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEE” not a serious offer of actually helping anyone.
I mean do you really think he would do anything for anyone out of the goodness of his heart?
At best it’s an effort to find more people willing to kiss his ass.
At worst he’s so desperate for attention he doesn’t care if it’s negative.
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O –
I still think he’s gonna try to shake ’em down for pardons. It’s too much temptation not to do it. He’s just trying to determine the asking price.
Rgds,
TG
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You mean like Paxton in TX? With yet another frivolous election lawsuit? The Paxton that has 3 state and federal felony counts against him? Thar kind of quiddly prolly quouo?
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Reminds me of those Oprah episodes, where, toward the end, she proclaims, “OK everybody, it’s time to reach under your seats, to see what fabulous prize is waiting there for you!”
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