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We have another example of Nikki Haley talking out of both sides of her mouth with regards to Trump’s legal troubles. I’m sure most of you have already heard that Haley has promised to pardon Trump IF he is convicted in any of his federal trials. Haley...
by Merlin196360
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 06:28 PM PST
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A president should not be able to self-pardon, nor should they be able to pardon prior presidents a la Ford/Nixon. Neither should they have the power to pardon people or entities who might be co-conspirators in crimes in which the President was...
by jtg
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on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 12:02 PM PST
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Earlier this month, Donald Trump hinted he might try to have the case charging him with attempting to steal Georgia’s electoral votes moved from a Georgia state court to a federal court. Well, on late Thursday afternoon, Trump made a smart legal...
by Darrell Lucus
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on Thu Sep 28, 2023 at 04:04 PM PDT
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Jeff Charles, a right-wing (I say conservative, he says libertarian) podcaster and Redstate Blog contributor, says that Biden should pardon Trump because “it's what's best for the nation.” His argument is not based on any belief that Trump is innocent....
by TheCriticalMind
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on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 03:53 PM PDT
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I saw a headline in Politico about an opinion piece titled A Trump Pardon Could Drain Poison from the System, clicked on the link and saw that Rich Lowry of the National Review had vomited up hundreds of words. www.politico.com/… This is in ADDITION to...
by brother brown
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on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 07:57 PM PDT
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To wonder if Marc Thiessen is a conservative shill is like asking if the Pope is Catholic. This weekly columnist for the Washington Post is a senior fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, the brain trust of American neoconservatism. In the 1990s,...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 03:19 PM PDT
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Reid J. Epstein , Anjali Huynh and Alyce McFadden � collaborated on the following article at The NY Times:
by xaxnar
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on Wed Jun 14, 2023 at 09:45 AM PDT
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Which Rs think The IT is a criminal? Should he go to prison? Should he run, nevertheless? Would they pardon him? Some Rs are edging toward the truth, much as the MSM and the Never Trumpers took ...
by Mokurai
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on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary to�George W. Bush,�advised all Republican 2024 presidential hopefuls to commit to pardoning Donald Trump in the wake of his federal indictment ...
by Kerry Eleveld
108 comments
on Fri Jun 09, 2023 at 03:04 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Sunday, Jan 1, 2023 · 4:20:04 PM +00:00 · Dem I am going to admit right now that this isn’t organized as well as I like it. Who am I kidding, it’s not organized at all. Still, some people may find value in it. Or I may just unpublish it....
by Dem
355 comments
on Sun Jan 01, 2023 at 07:50 AM PST
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On Oct. 6, 2022, President Biden issued a proclamation pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, signaling a major shift in the federal approach to cannabis. He also urged ...
by TealBomb
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on Thu May 11, 2023 at 02:06 PM PDT
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DID TRUMP TRY TO PARDON HIMSELF? I have been interested in this question for some time. Even before I was interested in this question, I was interested in a related, earlier question: Would Trump try to pardon himself? In fact, I wrote a diary...
by Tortmaster
160 comments
on Sun Oct 30, 2022 at 02:50 AM PDT
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Roger Stone has a big tattoo of Richard Nixon’s face on his back. Stone was convicted of seven felony counts and faced a sentence of 40 months in prison, and then Donald Trump used his powers as chief executive to commute Stone’s conviction. Trump even...
by Walter Einenkel
145 comments
on Fri Oct 14, 2022 at 10:50 AM PDT
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The Jan. 6 committee is poised to host two public hearings next week, first on Tuesday, July 12 at 10 AM and then again on July 14, according to reports first out by Punchbowl News. The exact time of the July 14 hearing was not formally announced...
by Brandi Buchman
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on Thu Jul 07, 2022 at 11:17 AM PDT
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It’s almost impossible to imagine that a teenage girl who’d been sexually abused and groomed for sex work starting at age 11 would serve a day in prison—much less 18 years—for murdering the man who’d abused her. But that’s exactly what happened to Sara...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Wed Jul 06, 2022 at 07:45 AM PDT
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From RawStory, Rudy Giuliani as he tried to undermine Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony, said this little gem: "The January 6 Witch Hunt Cabal has now exceeded even its prior fraudulent," he said. "The last witness was a reckless liar. Contrary to her...
by polecat
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on Thu Jun 30, 2022 at 11:47 AM PDT
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They knew what they were doing was illegal (Meadows, Guliani, Eastman, Flynn et al)! Corrupt intent! How do we know that they knew that what they were doing was illegal? They requested pardons from Trump and pled the fifth amendment when they were interrogated. They would not have done this if they did not believe that what they did was illegal....
by Dem
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on Thu Jun 30, 2022 at 10:57 AM PDT
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Just a quick question — what would be the reaction be if President Biden is offering a pardon to Cassidy Hutchinson after her testimony today? How would this be received by all those who were stiffed by Trump after January 6th? Discuss below.
by ColoTim
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on Tue Jun 28, 2022 at 09:48 AM PDT
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Gaetz' Pardon Plea DENIED; NEW Endorsements for Rebekah Fort Walton Beach, Florida — Rebekah Jones gained another major endorsement this week when Florida College Democrats pledged their support for her campaign! FCD joins Florida Young Democrats,...
by GeoRebekah
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on Thu Jun 23, 2022 at 07:32 PM PDT
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During Thursday’s Jan. 6 committee hearing, the panel discussed “constitutional scholar” John Eastman’s strategy to change the results of the 2020 presidential election, emphasizing that Eastman’s plan was blatantly unconstitutional. In fact, it was a...
by Walter Einenkel
231 comments
on Thu Jun 16, 2022 at 02:00 PM PDT
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