• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 hours ago

    All of his pardons so far have been political, that is to loyalists or those who were willing to pay him a bribe campaign contributions. If he were to make pardons of mercy, the public would suspect they were political merely based on the precedent he’s already set.

    However, I can’t even imagine Trump willing to make mercy pardons at all. Trump really is that stuck in a transactional mindset, and cannot do a positive thing even as a publicity stunt. Every step he takes has to enrich him.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    Will be a list full of overt distractions all to hide the 3-5 pardons he REALLY doesn’t want you to focus on.

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    “Letting Criminals Go Free” seems to track now that “Law and Order” is on the wane.

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    Nothing says “250th anniversary of the nation’s founding” quite like the Felon-in-Chief pardoning even more of his criminal cronies and sycophants.

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    The article isn’t loading for me, but if the headline is accurate, there is no way to logically cast this in a positive light because you’re arbitrarily playing with people’s lives to match a number that happens to be a round number in base 10.

    I think we all know that there aren’t going to be exactly 250 people who deserve pardons. So either they are pardoning too many people and letting criminals go free without completing their sentences, or there are more than 250 people who deserve pardons. Imagine being the 251st person. “Sorry, but Trump wanted exactly 250, so you don’t get a pardon.”

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      Your in jail for smoking weed, guy next to you in there for rape, murder, armed robbery and arms smuggling alright and 250th pardoned is this guyyyy as they help the other guy up to be let go

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        I chuckled at your “deserved pardons” line. As if that has anything to do with who would be chosen. Going by the pardons this administration has been handing out so far, just pick the top 250 business moguls doing time for fraud. Boom. 250 easy.

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    Lol you could do 250 of thousands of different things that would all be objectively better than pardoning 250 convicted criminals.

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      It’d be pretty easy to hand out 250 pardons to reasonable, reformed or innocent people.

      Of course he won’t. He’ll pardon anyone who pays him.

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    You just know Ghislaine Maxwell is on that list. Someone has to get her body double out of Club Fed.

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    Release Barabbas! Release Barabbas! Seriously, is it any more clear that any pretense of good governance has been abandoned and it is all just turning into bread and circuses? I’d like to observe that while roughly 9% of presidents have been assassinated, about 40% of Roman emperors were, so this whole “bread and circuses” might not work as well as they think.

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      Don’t get your hopes up, for some reason all of trumps would-be-assassins are completly inept to the level that one might suggest these attempts were staged.