'I’m facing a prison sentence': US Capitol rioters plead with Trump for pardons | US Capitol attack | The Guardian
Arrested Trump supporters say they were ‘listening’ to the president
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Guardian: ‘I’m facing a prison sentence’: US Capitol rioters plead with Trump for pardons
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Lulz. They actually think he even cares who they are? He only pardons his friends, the people that did him illegal favours knowing he'd bail them out later, because then they'd owe him. Why would he ever pardon nobodies that can't offer him anything later?
Trump is on the narrative that what happened was horrible and the perpetrators should be punished but absolutely none of it was his fault. He'd blow up his whole argument if he pardoned these people.
It's Trump so you never know but yeah.
It's Trump so you never know but yeah.
Trump doesn't want them on his properties, what makes them think he actually gives a shit if they go to prison. You've been had assholes.
Please correct me on this, if I'm wrong, but doesn't someone have to convicted of a crime first before they can be pardoned? This is what primarily confuses me about the commentary of the 45th pardoning himself.
No. People have been given blanket pardons before without being charged for a crime.
Can he pardon them for a crime they're not charged with yet? I don't know how it works.
I'm pretty sure the president can't give you a fucking invite to the inside of the capitol building.'I’m facing a prison sentence': US Capitol rioters plead with Trump for pardons | US Capitol attack | The Guardian
Arrested Trump supporters say they were ‘listening’ to the president
Yeah let's ask the guy who let his administration execute 13 people in the shortest amount of time since... ever. I mean I know they are desperate, but surely they can see that he has just totally checked out of anything resembling presidential responsibility; they need to be asking Pence. True, he can't do anything to help them either but honestly? A better chance there, ah well.
Not the best and brightest, this lot.
Not the best and brightest, this lot.
LMFAO. You're the ones who listened to him in the first place & now you're expecting him to bail you out?
Trump doesn't give a shit about you or anyone else but himself & would only give out pardons to people who aren't rich if something benefits him politically. You're nothing but pawns to him.
Trump doesn't give a shit about you or anyone else but himself & would only give out pardons to people who aren't rich if something benefits him politically. You're nothing but pawns to him.
Sadly a woman with the same name and occupation harassed
Canadian who shares name, occupation with Trump supporter who stormed U.S. Capitol harassed online
An Ontario real estate agent who shares the same name and occupation as a woman who stormed the U.S. Capitol this month has been harassed online.
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He hasn't even pardoned his own family yet and they think he will save them lmao
Yeah, that's not right. Nixon was pardoned by Ford pre-emptively for crimes he hadn't been charged with yet. I don't think it's ever been tested in court, but that's the current interpretation of pardoning power. It's the actual act of pardoning oneself itself that is unprecedented, and would be challenged and probably not allowed.
This concept simply does not commute. There's apparently a lot of reading up on pardoning I need to do.
Nope. There are almost no limits to the presidential pardon. It can be used to pardon somebody for all crimes or a group of people for certain crimes.
For example, Presidents (prior to Trump) regularly granted amnesty to large groups of illegal immigrants.
People have been pre-emptively pardoned before, IIRC vietnam draft dodgers were blanket pardoned at some point.
