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    3 months ago

    Plus he’s making giant piles of money bilking the American people. And you can bet that, before his term ends, he’ll give himself a blanket pardon.

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      3 months ago

      Meh, the good thing about such a pardon is that it can just be ignored by the next government, just like his government ignored everything that happened before

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        3 months ago

        That probably wouldn’t happen. What would happen is that it would go to the courts whether a president can really pardon himself or not. His corrupt SCOTUS might actually say they can, but regardless it would probably take long enough that he’d be dead and not caring.

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          2 months ago

          Yeah but here is the thing… laws only work if people obey them.

          Trump on multiple occasions just ignored judge rulings with full impunity.

          What trump can do, so can the next