https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE7n0rwjwD4
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Oops. I forgot to mention this stuff.
It's an MSNBC vid
After convincing President Biden to pardon his son Hunter, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn is now calling for clemency for Donald Trump. "If we keep digging at things in the past, I'm not too sure the country will not lose its way," Clyburn tells MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart.
Jim Clyburn is now calling for clemency for Donald Trump.
He is about to become president, why would he need clemency now?
Can Trump pardon himself once he becomes president? (Honest question, IDK how the details of
politics work)Can Trump pardon himself...
Years ago - a "self pardon" was only a theoretical question that a law professor could answer with smirk if not a laugh. But now with a toxic, fundie, reactionary GOP 6-3 majority on the supreme court willing to do whatever to help Trump - the answer is surely "probably" if not a straight up "yes".
As far as anyone knows, it's an Air Bud rule situation
I'd fully expect it to go to the Supreme Court and be ruled constitutional 5-4 with Roberts dissenting to "preserve his legacy" or whatever knowing full well Thomas+Alito+Gorsuch+Kavanaugh+Conehead are 100% rubber stamping a "the president(R) can do whatever" decision
Don't you need to be personally harmed to bring a suit? Who's personally harmed by Trump writing himself a pardon? The prosecutor's ego?
It is of course a stupid and useless action since clearly being a crime guy didn't stop him from assuming the presidency, and pardoning himself will just get the hogs baying in approval, so idk
It would be litigated when/if a prosecutor tried to bring charges against Trump for conduct that was self-pardoned
So the US can go back to being a City on a Hill and a light to world, American exceptionalism can be reaffirmed, American civil religion can be worshiped again, and blah-blah-blah-fucking-blah.
Rehab of Trump before he even swears in. What skeletons are in your closet Clyburn?
Mr Biden sir, it would simply be divisive and un-American for you to not assume the downest face, uppest ass position you can so President Hamburgler can fuck you to save the soul of our nation
Kind of seems like a watered down version of the stupid rational after the Civil War that just let the former CSA states just act like nothing happened.
I'm sure that such weak tactics will surely lead to harmony, and the nation has nothing constructive to learn from bad shit we have done anyway. /s
I thought it was a bit but he fucking did that
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5021431-james-clyburn-joe-biden-donald-trump-pardon/
And pushed for the hunter pardon...what does he have over Biden??
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-press-secretary-reveals-the-top-democrat-who-influenced-bidens-hunter-pardon/
what does he have over Biden??
A steady supply of highly sniffable children that have been disappearing from Mount Pleasant?
Wasn't he a big part of the grand bargain that gave us Biden in the first place? (Even if we all know they wouldn't let us have Bernie, Mayo Pete also had momentum and would have had far less doddering potential)
This man is the Thomas Midgley of the Democraric Party.
Libs: Well there is precedence... (Ford pardoning Nixon)
Yes but by virtue of having been a republican in the past Nixon is already part of the resistance. Trump will only be able to join the resistance 8 years from now when a maga communist runs on a 'kill all left handed people' platform.
I really hope they don't do this so that Trump has to do it himself. Not because of civility or anything, I just think it'd be way more pathetic both for Trump and the US political system as a whole.
for those at home keeping score, Clyburn was the centerpiece/figurehead of the DNC maneuvering that rat fucked Bernie in the 2020 primaries after it became clear in NV he was going to run away with it... sending Chris Matthews into an emotional tailspin on live TV claiming that Bernie was going to execute journalists in Central Park.
it's insane how much as happened in those 4 years. in 2020, I would've said that's absurd, nobody wants that. today, I would vote for someone who ran exclusively on a platform of publicly executing Chris Matthews in Central Park and then go there to buy merch and overpriced hotdogs.
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