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White House weighs ‘250 pardons for 250 years’ to mark America’s birthday: report
(www.the-independent.com)
It is not a birthday, it is an funeral. 🫤
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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.
Oh yeah, that reminds me, whatever happened to the Silk Road guy after release?
Will be a list full of overt distractions all to hide the 3-5 pardons he REALLY doesn't want you to focus on.
Nothing says "250th anniversary of the nation's founding" quite like the Felon-in-Chief pardoning even more of his criminal cronies and sycophants.
We do have the highest incarcerated population on the planet, it's pretty on theme.
And each pardon only cost $250,000.
lol, no try 1 to 8 million.
whoosh
"Letting Criminals Go Free" seems to track now that "Law and Order" is on the wane.
You just know Ghislaine Maxwell is on that list. Someone has to get her body double out of Club Fed.
Gonna suck for the double. I doubt the retirement is very long.
Lol you could do 250 of thousands of different things that would all be objectively better than pardoning 250 convicted criminals.
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.
So.. 250 people charged in connection with epstein files?
Or 250 preemptive pardons for himself and all his cabinet members.
Possibly. Or it'll be 250 people that will pay the Drumpf family the most money for the pardon.
Or both.
Tbf auctioning off 250 pardons would bring in a lot of money for him
Gotta keep the grifting going.
250 Pardons for himself.
Maybe. More likely just more bribes.
Has anyone noticed that this Trump guy is kind of a cunt?
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."
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
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.
Idk if that’s better or worse tbh
No doubt they'll be the people least deserving
250k per pardon
If the president weighs 250 pounds on the 250th anniversary, that would be awesome.
I don’t think he could lose that much weight that fast
I wish hell was real.
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.
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.
100%, they're all like 16 year old idiots.
Somebody shoot him another email.
Preferably written on copper
If you saw this in something like the Hunger Games you wouldn't bat an eye.
I feel like this is what happens if the penguin becomes president.
Why stop there? Try 250 war crimes while you're at it oh look, a convenient war.
More criminals on the roads.
With any other president, I can see the pardon as a sign of compassion. With him, it is a pay-for-pardon scheme for criminals that managed to align with the Conman in Command.