“Get Out of Jail Free”? Debate Over Presidential Pardons Heats Up
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Is your question get out of jail free cards essentially or get out of jail free cards. Okay with you. I’m not talking about monopoly. Yeah, you can pick up a chance card. Get out of jail free. Go to jail. You can get yourself out. I’m talking blanket pardons. Blanket pardons. You haven’t been indicted for anything. You suppose you haven’t done anything wrong, but you get to carry around a get out of jail free card.
That sound like truth, justice and the American way to you? Not me. administration, Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office. I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the oval, Trump said in a recent meeting. I guess that radius.
again, it’s changing. So one one said that anybody that had come within 10 freed him. He said he was going to host a news conference and announce mass pardons before he left office. The unconditional power to pardon is a pretty sweeping power offered to the presidency. So far, and we’ve covered this here on the type of financial
criminals and people that I go after. As the watchdog on Wall Street, how he’s let them out of jail. Obviously made me none too happy. He has, he’s pardoned 1600 people so far. The majority of them have gone, of course, to allies and donors.
That’s way it is. Basically, people that he’s run into that have been nice to him. Crypto billionaire who boosted Trump’s own digital currency company. Former Honduran president convicted of conspiring with cartels to ship cocaine to the United States. Just to make a comparison, okay? In Trump’s first term, his entire first term,
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He signed fewer than 250 pardons and commutations. I for the life of me, I don’t don’t don’t get this. I don’t understand this. I don’t know how this is OK. I don’t know quite frankly how the administration’s top supporters even go along with something like this. It’s not even talked about. Now, what reason why the mainstream media really doesn’t talk about this much is because both sides do it. Both sides.
do it and they want to maintain that sweeping power. Again, I don’t think our founders had this in mind when they were talking about and they decided to grant this power to the presidency. Say, hey, anybody who gives money to me, you get to get out of jail free car. Anybody who works for me, you can do whatever I tell you to do. Don’t worry about the legal repercussions.
Because if they go after you, you’ve got yourself a get out of jail free card. You think that that’s what the founders had in mind? Me neither. Watchdogonwallstreet.com.
