Trump Straight Up Admits He Pardons People Because He Expects a Favor
https://newrepublic.com/post/216393/donald-trump-admits-pardons-get-something-in-return
Trump Straight Up Admits He Pardons People Because He Expects a Favor
https://newrepublic.com/post/216393/donald-trump-admits-pardons-get-something-in-return
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Meh. Peanuts. Wake me up when he’s in jail instead of bombing schools and touching kids.
Of course he does–for him, every human interaction is a self-serving transaction.
This is like the 12th Article I have read today about corruption by Trump or his administration.
Conservatives: “Our rights and freedoms must be protected! I can say whatever I want cause I have Freedom of Speech!”
(Sees evidence of Trump violating laws. Turns off opinions.)
Conservatives: “Dictators are neat!”
The quid pro quo part of his quid pro quo is very pro.
Abuses power. Abuses women. Abuses children. I’m sensing a theme.
We’re starting to see the signs that he feels comfortable enough to say whatever he wants now without repercussions. Concerning given the midterms are a month away.
He’s facing pretty much zero resistance or accountability. He was getting ready for his life to be completely ruined after he left the office. Then, millions of morons threw him a lifeline and elected him again. Now, he’s emboldened and feel invincible.
Fun fact, thanks to the immunity ruling he could open up a shop publicly selling pardons on the White House lawn and it would be 100% legal. (Or at least something he could not be prosecuted for)
Sure they could impeach him for it but good luck with that and even if they did he would still be immune for selling them.
they bribe him with millions of dollars. it’s not a secret. it is a felony though. just add it to the list of hundreds that maga and fox news make excuses for.
he is a narcissist through and through — he does not have regular relationships with people because he doesn’t believe other people are even human. every relationship is transactional and yet people still think they can somehow still stay in his good grace after he’s done draining the life, money, or both out of whatever stupid mark decides to hitch their wagon to his bullshit.
I can’t believe that I actually used to respect the office of the President.
What a joke these past ten years have been
Trump could set up a website and auction off pardons to the highest bidder or just set a price and sell them like any other online retailer.
The Supreme Court already made it clear that he cannot be charged with a crime for discharging any of the normal duties of the Presidency, and issuing pardons is a normal duty.
He can just openly sell pardons and he’s totally immune from prosecution.
This is some of the wildest corruption I’ve ever seen overtly stated by an elected official
Mobster uses mob tactics more at 11
> The revelation came amid an attack Wednesday night against Texas Representative Henry Cuellar…
If it’s a revelation to anyone they haven’t been paying attention.
Trump has been an entirely transactional entity in office, there’s never a sense he ever acts out of friendship, or love, or justice, or ethics etc., He does things because he thinks he’ll either benefit, or because it’ll stroke his ego.
And his base is completely okay with this.
The corruption is astounding.
How does your average republican read shit like this and tell themselves they’re on the right side?
And they still pretend Republicans are tough on crime. Republicans are why Americans get scammed every which way. Democrats play a part too, but you at least have more calling it out.
>The FBI raided Cuellar’s home and office in 2022 as part of a federal probe into the Texas Democrat’s ties to Azerbaijan. Cuellar and his wife faced a dozen charges of bribery, money laundering, and conspiracy—including allegations that they improperly accepted $600,000 in bribes from the central Asian country—before Trump intervened. At the time, Trump chalked up the charges to an improper intervention by the Biden administration, suggesting that his predecessor had weaponized the legal system to punish Cuellar for criticizing America’s immigration processes.
Another reason why Pardon power needs limits/oversight.
Impeach, convict, arrest. Then void every pardon and executive order.
Literally anyone else does this, congress swiftly impeaches them. Biden pardoned Faucii to avoid Rand Pauls kangaroo court and maga wanted both of them in prison.
Trump openly says “rich people can escape justice by giving me money” and those same clown ass fuckers will bet, on god, that hes just another one of the good fighters taking on wall street billionaires.
Conservatives still in denial that everything everyone ever said about this criminal’s criminality is true.