Donald Trump has promised to pardon his White House staffers, reported the Wall Street Journal’s Josh Dawsey in an exclusive report on Friday.
Dawsey, the veteran DC reporter, cited “people who have heard his comments” in the bombshell report revealing that Trump is asking his staff to operate with a sense of impunity.
“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump reportedly told staffers “in a recent meeting to laughs.”
The response to this needs to be a resounding, “LOL, no,” from whatever administration comes next. The constitution gives the President the power of the pardon? Well, if gives Congress power of the purse, but we let him ignore that. The Supreme Court will intercede? One of them is married to a J6er, another one is openly taking bribes, and ar least three of them committed perjury when they told Congress said they wouldn’t overturn precedent. Our country can’t continue without accountability.
Promises like his tax returns, the Epstein Files, payments to contractors, payments to rally organizers, that kind of a promise? Or the promises to stay faithful to his 3 wives, of which he cheated on the prior one with the future one.
Thwump has never understood the definition of the word “promise”.
He could do something really funny and have a heart attack before pardoning anyone.
They would have a weekend at Bernie’s before they would let the public know.
You had me at heart attack
And citizens are supposed to pay taxes to support these criminals?
Well, true Americans, not the woke American left or antifa /s
I guess if they do they feel represented by them, isn’t that their whole thing?
How is this a “bombshell”? Like really? Was this not assumed? Hell we don’t even know if this shit is technically illegal, immoral yes completely.
It’s not illegal, unfortunately.
The bombshell is: His staff, despite interacting with the guy daily, believed him, I guess…
Well why not? He likely will throw pardons around (it likely makes him hard to abuse the system). At this point they kinda have to go for broke, they are “all in” so to speak.
Openly manipulating markets and now betting sites for personal gain. They have already embezzled billions. Crypto scams up the wazzo.
The grift knows no end.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, dismissed Trump’s comments in a statement, saying, “The Wall Street Journal should learn to take a joke, however, the President’s pardon power is absolute.”
It’s just a joke, bro! Unless…
Trump has no sense of humor, he doesn’t know how to joke
Y’all are the actual government of an entire country. You shouldn’t be making fucking jokes in the first place especially when it pertains to the law. And if this was a joke, it’s not even a very good one.
The Donvict operates this way, testing the waters to see how far he can go and see what might stick.
my kid reverts to “im just joking” when they know they fucked up, and they are 8. is the potus an 8yo?
That’s not fair. 8 year olds aren’t nearly this dumb.
Doesn’t he say he’s the same person he was when he was 4 and proud of it?
7, but yes, he’s said that he’s the same person he was in first grade.
I personally believe him on this one.
The leaders of a first world nation are no different from YouTube clown shows.
It’s not absolute.
in december when both houses are returned to sanity the work of overturning pardons one by one will start
there will be no safe place for these people
I’ll believe it when I see it. Maybe if you manage to primary candidates that have a spine and will actually do this.
(But yes, everyone should vote blue in general midterms, because the electoral system is cooked and the alternative is messed up beyond words. Especially those who believe Dems are just pretending to oppose fascism or sometjing - the more the Dems win, the more their bluff gets called. And one can say: “Okay, we voted blue and blue won. Now what?”)
Lol out loud
It’s almost like they’re criminals or something.
So what. He promises a lot of things he doesn’t deliver. Staffers know that best of anyone.
They should, but so many still get caught out thinking they were special and that surely after 79 years, they’d be the person Trump didn’t screw over
There is a pretty significant chance that Trump won’t keep his word.
And that’s if he doesn’t just die before he has a chance to.
Generally speaking, you want to pardon your Capos because you don’t want them ratting on you.
You say this as if trump thinks things through.
Hows that Iran situation going? Oh, he declaired absolute victory? How very odd, and also factually untrue.
You say this as if trump thinks things through.
He’s been at this racket for a long while.
Hows that Iran situation going?
Everyone on the inside is making a ton of money.
If they’re pardoned they can’t hide behind the fifth, especially if he issues the blanket pardons like he’s threatening.
Might make for some interesting TV. And you KNOW those dumbfucks would then somehow screw up their testimony, subjecting them to perjury charges…
If they’re pardoned they can’t hide behind the fifth
They can if they don’t fear a contempt charge. Quite a few seem happy enough to entirely ignore subpoenas
Yeah but on the other hand, if they are pardoned then the 5th doesn’t apply to them and they can face charges for not answering questions.
I’d love it if the media would stop reporting that Trump doing the worst fucking thing imaginable is a “bombshell.”
But this is a bombshell, though? Would be the worst scandal of any other administration.
Every single day would be the worst scandal of any other administration.
Literally.
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“Bombshell Report: Trump tells his staff no one will be getting a pardon.”
Now there’s a headline I didn’t see coming.
“bombs’ hell” in Middle East
Why do they need assurances that they’d get pardons?
This is the guy that claimed anyone taking the Fifth was guilty, now promising pardons?
They can’t be pardoned if people get upset enough and remove them
A pardon doesn’t magically suspend physics, that’s for sure.
Bullet goes in, bullet goes out. You can’t explain that
That would require the repubilcan party to have a spine, and they gave that up a decade ago to better lick trumps “boots”
If impeachment goes to trial in the Senate and it looks like it might not go well for him, he will make sure everyone is pardoned before he is removed from office.
republicans will make a show of it but ultimately they won’t vote to remove him. They’re complicit and they’re absolutely wallowing in the fact that they can do whatever they want as long as they convince everyone it was his idea.
What are the odds of people getting “upset enough” about this, but not about putting your shitter full of top secret documents and getting away with it scot-free?
The interesting thing about child rape, is that it activates the completely unhinged QAnon-esque people, who actually do commit violence with glee. Though I disagree with them on many things, we just happen to be aligned on “child rape=bad”. That crime creates a visceral reaction that “stealing and selling state secrets” doesn’t quite emit.
So I feel like Epstein is the one thing that could actually get through to many in MAGA cult.
Okay, but do QAnon folks associate child rape with Trump or his administration? A tiny majority maybe, but most are still mainlining the Kool-Aid.
Most Christians are vehemently opposed to many things approved of in the Bible, but it doesn’t seem to bother them much.
So I feel like Epstein is the one thing that could actually get through to many in MAGA cult.
Too bad the majority will find a way to justify it rather than admit they supported everything they hated. Calling it now, “Trump had to rape those kids, how else could he have gotten in with those people to take them down?”
You know, you always have the power to void any pardons from Trump (create a new law). But that would require you lot to grow some balls which I don’t see happening.
He will pardon anyone whose useful to him, regardless of the crimes. I’m exhausted trying to get people to understand just how destructive and dangerous it is for him to be in power. None of it matters. He’s gonna get away with it all because too many people believe, for no good fucking reason, that something will stop him so the don’t have to act.
He will pardon everyone who can afford it.
Trading favours and being un service to him is payment though.
