Donald Trump has promised to pardon his White House staffers, reported the Wall Street Journal’s Josh Dawsey in an exclusive report on Friday.
Dawsey, the veteran DC reporter, cited “people who have heard his comments” in the bombshell report revealing that Trump is asking his staff to operate with a sense of impunity.
“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump reportedly told staffers “in a recent meeting to laughs.”
The response to this needs to be a resounding, “LOL, no,” from whatever administration comes next. The constitution gives the President the power of the pardon? Well, if gives Congress power of the purse, but we let him ignore that. The Supreme Court will intercede? One of them is married to a J6er, another one is openly taking bribes, and ar least three of them committed perjury when they told Congress said they wouldn’t overturn precedent. Our country can’t continue without accountability.
Promises like his tax returns, the Epstein Files, payments to contractors, payments to rally organizers, that kind of a promise? Or the promises to stay faithful to his 3 wives, of which he cheated on the prior one with the future one.
Thwump has never understood the definition of the word “promise”.
He could do something really funny and have a heart attack before pardoning anyone.
And citizens are supposed to pay taxes to support these criminals?
Openly manipulating markets and now betting sites for personal gain. They have already embezzled billions. Crypto scams up the wazzo.
The grift knows no end.
It’s almost like they’re criminals or something.
There is a pretty significant chance that Trump won’t keep his word.
And that’s if he doesn’t just die before he has a chance to.
Generally speaking, you want to pardon your Capos because you don’t want them ratting on you.
You say this as if trump thinks things through.
Hows that Iran situation going? Oh, he declaired absolute victory? How very odd, and also factually untrue.
You say this as if trump thinks things through.
He’s been at this racket for a long while.
Hows that Iran situation going?
Everyone on the inside is making a ton of money.
If they’re pardoned they can’t hide behind the fifth, especially if he issues the blanket pardons like he’s threatening.
Might make for some interesting TV. And you KNOW those dumbfucks would then somehow screw up their testimony, subjecting them to perjury charges…
If they’re pardoned they can’t hide behind the fifth
They can if they don’t fear a contempt charge. Quite a few seem happy enough to entirely ignore subpoenas
Yeah but on the other hand, if they are pardoned then the 5th doesn’t apply to them and they can face charges for not answering questions.
So what. He promises a lot of things he doesn’t deliver. Staffers know that best of anyone.
They should, but so many still get caught out thinking they were special and that surely after 79 years, they’d be the person Trump didn’t screw over
Why do they need assurances that they’d get pardons?
This is the guy that claimed anyone taking the Fifth was guilty, now promising pardons?
They can’t be pardoned if people get upset enough and remove them
A pardon doesn’t magically suspend physics, that’s for sure.
That would require the repubilcan party to have a spine, and they gave that up a decade ago to better lick trumps “boots”
If impeachment goes to trial in the Senate and it looks like it might not go well for him, he will make sure everyone is pardoned before he is removed from office.
republicans will make a show of it but ultimately they won’t vote to remove him. They’re complicit and they’re absolutely wallowing in the fact that they can do whatever they want as long as they convince everyone it was his idea.
What are the odds of people getting “upset enough” about this, but not about putting your shitter full of top secret documents and getting away with it scot-free?
The interesting thing about child rape, is that it activates the completely unhinged QAnon-esque people, who actually do commit violence with glee. Though I disagree with them on many things, we just happen to be aligned on “child rape=bad”. That crime creates a visceral reaction that “stealing and selling state secrets” doesn’t quite emit.
So I feel like Epstein is the one thing that could actually get through to many in MAGA cult.
Okay, but do QAnon folks associate child rape with Trump or his administration? A tiny majority maybe, but most are still mainlining the Kool-Aid.
Most Christians are vehemently opposed to many things approved of in the Bible, but it doesn’t seem to bother them much.
So I feel like Epstein is the one thing that could actually get through to many in MAGA cult.
Too bad the majority will find a way to justify it rather than admit they supported everything they hated. Calling it now, “Trump had to rape those kids, how else could he have gotten in with those people to take them down?”
You know, you always have the power to void any pardons from Trump (create a new law). But that would require you lot to grow some balls which I don’t see happening.
He will pardon anyone whose useful to him, regardless of the crimes. I’m exhausted trying to get people to understand just how destructive and dangerous it is for him to be in power. None of it matters. He’s gonna get away with it all because too many people believe, for no good fucking reason, that something will stop him so the don’t have to act.
He will pardon everyone who can afford it.
Trading favours and being un service to him is payment though.
How do pardons work on war crimes?
Ok hold, that’s fine let him do that. Now what the next president should do just assassinate them and then pardon the assassins. Since it seems that we can do whatever the fuck we want with the pardons now.
This is why I don’t want bondi being investigated right now. I can wait 3 years.
They could have stopped Trump from running if they cared.
