The long and winding pardon list. I wish the people who need to know this could read your message Greg! Excellent description of MTG as a bete noire , learn something new everyday. Thanks for staying on FPOTUS criminal ass!
That power is in the Constitution. That does, however, join a growing list of items that need to be addressed and somehow modified to suit modern times and strategies. The cockroaches find every nook and cranny they can exploit. There needs to be a commission, partly citizen, to delineate and target all of these because many will take long term action.
Pardons for tRump were just another transaction, a favor or thank you, and a veiled (not) agreement or payback for another deed. Those who didn’t rate a pardon lost out for cause or reasons that we were, or are now, aware of. Thanks for covering this subject, and adding at least one excellent example I was not even aware of that shines a light on how low these maggots, including tRump, will go.
I can't even speak to the pardon stuff because not one thing will change about the pardon power or be done because of Trump's illegitimate pardons. The Trump presidency made me realize, probably for the first time, how much I respect the Constitution, and how many loopholes can be found for dishonest, criminal actors. The entire Constitution was based on standards, norms and what was UNDERSTOOD to be NORMAL behavior without needing every little thing written down. We made it for 240 years with that in place.
I did notice this, in the article about Bernie Keric:
"The judge said that after 9/11, Kerik "in many ways acted in the highest tradition of a public servant." But then, he added, "The fact that Mr. Kerik would use that event for personal gain and aggrandizement is a dark place in the soul for me."
Sounds like something that could be copied in full for Giuliani's sentencing, doesn't it? Scum always rises to the top, and it's always gross.
It sure helps to have a fuck-ton of money, when it comes to avoiding prison.
Or on the way to jail, and then he pardons them. Infuriating!
The long and winding pardon list. I wish the people who need to know this could read your message Greg! Excellent description of MTG as a bete noire , learn something new everyday. Thanks for staying on FPOTUS criminal ass!
The Long and Winding Pardon List is a much better title than mine.
We need to curb this pardon power.
Too many squirrelly politicians.
This cancer will only grow.
That power is in the Constitution. That does, however, join a growing list of items that need to be addressed and somehow modified to suit modern times and strategies. The cockroaches find every nook and cranny they can exploit. There needs to be a commission, partly citizen, to delineate and target all of these because many will take long term action.
The Founders assumed the voters wouldn't be so gullible.
Pardons for tRump were just another transaction, a favor or thank you, and a veiled (not) agreement or payback for another deed. Those who didn’t rate a pardon lost out for cause or reasons that we were, or are now, aware of. Thanks for covering this subject, and adding at least one excellent example I was not even aware of that shines a light on how low these maggots, including tRump, will go.
Thanks, Steven. Exactly! Everything a transaction. EVERYTHING.
Excellent summation’! Did you forget *former Apprentice contestants*? (former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevuc)
Blago was on there? Good Lord.
Lol. Only the finest grifters for the Donald.
Just wondering what wording would fit on a bumper sticker: "A 2024 Win for Trump is a Pardon for Convicted Felons"?
A billboard, certainly.
you win
Pardoning Stone is like fertilizing a tumor 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Cancer on our democracy.
I can't even speak to the pardon stuff because not one thing will change about the pardon power or be done because of Trump's illegitimate pardons. The Trump presidency made me realize, probably for the first time, how much I respect the Constitution, and how many loopholes can be found for dishonest, criminal actors. The entire Constitution was based on standards, norms and what was UNDERSTOOD to be NORMAL behavior without needing every little thing written down. We made it for 240 years with that in place.
I did notice this, in the article about Bernie Keric:
"The judge said that after 9/11, Kerik "in many ways acted in the highest tradition of a public servant." But then, he added, "The fact that Mr. Kerik would use that event for personal gain and aggrandizement is a dark place in the soul for me."
Sounds like something that could be copied in full for Giuliani's sentencing, doesn't it? Scum always rises to the top, and it's always gross.
"Scum always rises to the top, and it's always gross."
Perfect!
If there are lines Trump dared not cross, I’m sure the reasons were money and power, not principle.
Absolutely, and good point. He was afraid he'd get caught, probably.
“(The Founders kind of assumed the president would not be a mob boss.)” ... and that the members of SCOTUS would not be in it for the money.
Excellent work here. It deserves a broader audience!