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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
Naturally if Trump is hellbent on coming after these people he's going to be able to do it as the President (or have someone else do it at a non federal level) regardless in some other way that doesn't apply, and probably with very little effort too.
It's wrong and nobody should be minimizing these pardons whether it's capital rioters or simply nepotism. It also opens the door for a little more abuse every time. It won't even look as bad now if Trump decides to pre-emptively pardon his entire family in 4 years....maybe he wouldn't even have thought of it until now. I don't think grilling Biden on this is at all unfair and should be something he takes a lot of heat for given the door he's further opening.
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I hate to be the bearer of obvious news, but the door has been kicked open, blown up, driven over, and stuffed in an incinerator. There is no door to crack open further.
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Supporters and political allies
Trump's use of the pardon power was marked by an unprecedented degree of favoritism.[12] He frequently granted executive clemency to his supporters or political allies,[17][18] or following personal appeals or campaigns in conservative media,[19] as in the cases of Rod Blagojevich, Michael Milken, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, and Clint Lorance, as well as Bernard Kerik.[17] Trump granted clemency to five of his former campaign staff members and political advisers: Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Stephen K. Bannon, and George Papadopoulos.[20]
Many of Trump's grants of clemency were criticized by the federal agents and prosecutors who investigated and prosecuted the cases.[21] Trump's grant of clemency to Stone in July 2020 marked the first time Trump granted clemency to a "figure directly connected to the president's campaign."[17] Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn B. Maloney, who chair two House committees, said that "No other president has exercised the clemency power for such a patently personal and self-serving purpose" and said that they would investigate whether Stone's commutation was a reward for protecting Trump.[17] Most Republican elected officials remained silent on Trump's commutation of Stone.[18] Exceptions were Republican senators Mitt Romney, who termed the commutation "unprecedented, historic corruption," and Pat Toomey, who called the commutation a "mistake" due in part to the severity of the crimes of which Stone was convicted.[17][22][23]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...litical_allies
Lets stop pretending rules and norms matter anymore. They don't care, that's how they get power.