Posted on May 28, 2025
Trump is stretching his pardon power – to the delight of his Maga acolytes
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Mixed messaging here, Trump talks about coming down hard of fraud, while granting 61 pardons/commutations for fraud convictions in his first term, and already at 12 fraud pardons since January. I guess if you (or your mom) hands over $1M to Trump, you can get a pardon and keep the rest of the money?
Trump is stretching his pardon power – to the delight of his Maga acolytes
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I don't agree with most of the pardons. Just as I didn't agree with the Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Reagan ones either.
You don't the crime, you'd better do the time.
You don't the crime, you'd better do the time.
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No real vetting. Not using, or barely using, the office of experts staffed to facilitate this process. They just go straight Donny Two Dolls in-person or by text, or through some 3rd party that isn't the Pardon Office. At least in previous administrations, pardons were typically focused on cases that were murky on the original conviction, or newer technology has revealed an error made, or if the pardons were "political" in some way, they were only granted after the individual had served long portions of their sentences. Or they were commutations. Nixon was an extraordinary exception. And then President Biden made an unprecedented exception by pardoning people (including Family) pre-emptively who were directly threatened with weaponized political prosecution. Now we have sunk to a new low - Presidential pardons of un-repentant, recently imprisoned subjects, for sale to the highest bidder... including violent criminals that attacked law enforcement.
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SGM Jeff Mccloud
I think the process includes
1. hey, I was unfairly singled out and convicted of my crimes simply for being MAGA, just like you, and
2. here's $1M to make it worth your while.
1. hey, I was unfairly singled out and convicted of my crimes simply for being MAGA, just like you, and
2. here's $1M to make it worth your while.
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Need to look into that, the big guy is only supposed to get 10%, right?
At this rate, maybe he'll pardon Letitia James?
At this rate, maybe he'll pardon Letitia James?
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SGM Jeff Mccloud
If she's willing to pay.
He pardoned one of Hunter Biden's partners, it would seem that payment erases partisan division.
He pardoned one of Hunter Biden's partners, it would seem that payment erases partisan division.
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