Donald Trump abused his pardon power. He’s promising to do it again.
Donald Trump abused his pardon power. He’s promising to do it again.
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Donald Trump abused his pardon power. He’s promising to do it again.
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Just Nazi things.
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Trumpers love corruption.
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Do you have examples? While they all pardon people, most don’t misuse that by power to let friends and family avoid justice.
I tried searching for articles on misuse of the pardon power and besides Trump only saw Nixon’s intent to but didn’t.
For example, Obama pardoned a record number but most were excessive sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, and more were to correct racial biases
Edit: here’s an article that does give multiple examples but also makes clear the scope of Trumps misuse was unprecedented
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Ford famously pardoned Nixon so he couldn’t be prosecuted for his involvement in the Watergate cover up. It’s arguable that prosecution and prison time for Nixon would have set a different precedent than we have in place now.
George HW Bush pardoned a bunch of people who were involved in Iran-Contra, as well as Armand Hammer for illegal campaign contributions to Nixon-“coincidentally” after Hammer donated $110k to the RNC.
Bill Clinton pardoned his HUD secretary of lying to the FBI, pardoned his half brother Roger, his CIA chief, a partner of his in the Whitewater deal, and multiple democratic representatives who had been found guilty of bank fraud.
George W Bush pardoned Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney’s chief of staff.
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Except Joe Biden. he could pardon his son but he has a thing called honor.
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Please name any potus that has promised to pardon seditionists that act on their behalf. If we're going to whataboutism this, at least point to equivalent examples. Otherwise you're just normalizing a dictator in waiting.
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Throw it on the pile with the other powers he plans to abuse.