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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*****BREAKING***** It is done. Trump pardon of Scooter Libby is official
It's a signal to members of his crime family that he will pardon them too.
Imagine the late John Gotti with pardon power.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,765 posts)dalton99a
(81,663 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)As far as I can see, it didn't slow Mueller down one iota.
Mueller may well bring state charges against any perps he can and prosecute those first. That may run until trump is no longer in a position to pardon anyone.
Sides that, who is going to trust trump to pardon? He lies.
ismnotwasm
(42,022 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)IronLionZion
(45,612 posts)unless it's a state charge that takes him down
Abu Pepe
(637 posts)spend the rest of his life in a Pennsylvania prison for conspiracy to committ kidnapping among other things. Manafort will do the same in a NY prison for basically the same stuff he is charged with now. Just not in a cushy minimum security Fed vacility.
Azathoth
(4,611 posts)This is the way he handles rage, by acting in the most obnoxious way possible.
If he had any balls, he would have pardoned Cohen.
Bucky
(54,087 posts)Got his traitor buddy off the hook first thing after taking the job. That's probably pretty smart considering how quickly Trump's people turn over.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)progressoid
(50,009 posts)George HW pardoned a bunch in his first year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_George_H._W._Bush
Trump is actually kind of behind in this area. Probably because he's too busy tweeting and golfing.
ailsagirl
(22,901 posts)I'm sure he had promised all those creeps he'd pardon them-- for a price, probably
Sleazy and inexcusable