Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

[TN Toffee]

Ugh. CNN is making an unfortunate point right now. Trump could possibly issue pardons to every single one of the people involved in yesterday’s events.

 

[Melba Toast]

Ugh. CNN is making an unfortunate point right now. Trump could possibly issue pardons to every single one of the people involved in yesterday’s events.

Do they not have to be convicted first??

 

[Melba Toast]

Oh boy

 

[TN Toffee]

Do they not have to be convicted first??

Considering that the prevailing wisdom is that he can issue pardons to at least his family, and maybe himself, for crimes they haven’t even been charged with yet, my guess would be no.

 

[BlueToff]

Have nothing against you Toff. I just don't buy in to your take on it at all. xx

Fair enough. I hope it didn't come across as a defence of Trump, or what those people did yesterday. See my posts last night to show what I think of them.

Just think this was boiling over for a while and Trump merely was the final straw. I don't think he's the root cause of the problem, which for me is more worrying.

I'm glad Biden won. I hope he can start to turn the US political landscape around. But with everything that's going on, it seems a nation so divided. I don't know if Trump going solves any of that, though it's obviously a step in the right direction.

 

[BlueToff]

Sorry, as someone who lives here that seems extremely naive.

And even if there was a pile of kindling sitting there you don’t give the person who piled on logs and then took a blowtorch to it and cackles as it burns a pass.

I don't mean he did it accidentally all through.

I remember reading Fire and Fury. His campaign was nothing more than him wanting to be in a d***-swinging contest. And then he realised he could win, and him or the people running his campaign knew what to jump onto.

I didn't mean the post to be absolving him of responsibility.

 

[Melba Toast]

Considering that the prevailing wisdom is that he can issue pardons to at least his family, and maybe himself, for crimes they haven’t even been charged with yet, my guess would be no.

Some lawyers saying they don't know if that will work or hold up in court. But the problem is, is that no one has done it so there's no precedent. Leave it to Trump to be the first to try.

 

[carolinablue232]

Odds he makes it through the day without getting locked again?

10-1

 

[TN Toffee]

10-1

Did he actually get it unlocked yet? I don’t think he’s tweeted all day.

 

[BlueTX]

Some lawyers saying they don't know if that will work or hold up in court. But the problem is, is that no one has done it so there's no precedent. Leave it to Trump to be the first to try.

Presidents have issued pre-emptive pardons to others in the past. Most notably, Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon who had not been charged with a crime. What has not happened is a POTUS pre-emptively pardoning himself.

 

[carolinablue232]

Did he actually get it unlocked yet? I don’t think he’s tweeted all day.

Idk actually. I don’t use Twitter so I’m basically at the mercy of whatever tweets get linked here. No way he avoids another ban though if it is lifted.

 

[LinekersLegs]

I don't mean he did it accidentally all through.

I remember reading Fire and Fury. His campaign was nothing more than him wanting to be in a d***-swinging contest. And then he realised he could win, and him or the people running his campaign knew what to jump onto.

I didn't mean the post to be absolving him of responsibility.

Sorry mate, been a bit of a tense couple of days!

We can speculate as to what the situation would be if any of the other 2016 candidates had won but for all their myriad faults I don’t think we would have ended up with a mob trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power so tend to overreact to things I interpret as Trump being just a bystander.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Seeing as Pence wont invoke the 25th just hurry up and do it otherwise this will all start again once he announces he's running again for 2024. It may just pass this time and stops him from ever running again

 

[summerisle]

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Now, would an impeachment be televised?