#trump pardons

[mylionheart2]

"Republicans are exploiting this moment to roll back civil liberties and write their wealthy friends in the private prison industry an $83 billion check. They aren’t working for you. They are lining their own pockets and hoping that drumming up immigrant panic will cover up their own profiteering." - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[fuck-u-maga]

[charlesoberonn]

Every time a Republican politician or right-wing pundit complains about Hunter Biden being pardoned I want you to remember all of Trump's pardons of much worse criminals, some of which will now be serving in his 2nd administration.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

He threw a homemade bomb at Capitol police officers that detonated in the building.

[onlytiktoks]

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-jan-6-rioters-pardons-back-the-blue-rcna188849

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[follow-up-news]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order pardoning 23 anti-abortion-rights activists Thursday, one day before he is expected to address thousands of anti-abortion-rights demonstrators at their annual march in Washington. “Twenty-three people were prosecuted, they should not have been prosecuted,” Trump said at the Oval Office signing ceremony Thursday, noting that “many of them” are elderly. “This is a great honor to sign. They will be very happy.” Some are in jail, White House staff secretary Will Scharf told Trump as he stood next to him. None of their names were immediately released. Conservatives have charged the Biden administration with using a 1994 law protecting abortion clinics, providers and patients to target peaceful protesters. Congress enacted the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act in response to an increase in violence against abortion providers and their patients, with the aim of allowing people to safely access such services. It also protects First Amendment religious rights. Property damage can be prosecuted under the statute. Several of the people prosecuted under the law were involved in a 2021 blockade of a Washington, D.C., reproductive health care clinic. Advocates for clemency argue that the Biden administration used the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act to prosecute anti-abortion-rights protesters unjustly. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, re-introduced legislation this week to repeal the measure. The annual March for Life along the National Mall is Friday, the third time the demonstration has been held since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022. Trump is expected to address the crowd virtually, while Vice President JD Vance will speak in person.

[lovingbeta]

Officer Michael Fanone knows the meaning of law and order and asserts, from hard-won experience, that Trump, our new Mussolini, does not.

[geezerwench]

Indiana man pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 riot is killed by deputy

#Jan6 #CapitolInsurrectionist shot and killed when resisting arrest.

He should have complied, right?

One less "very fine" nazi. This is how they #BackTheBlue.

[fuck-u-maga]

Is this what makes us great maga, is it?? Jesus fuck, imagine if Biden or Obama did this

[uboat53]

You want to know how vapid a lot of news has become? I'm reading an article on Slate, which used to be a bastion of thoughtful, in-depth, long-form reporting. This article is making the argument that Biden's pardons of his family and of people who investigated the January 6th insurrection make it impossible to criticize Trump's pardons of the January 6th insurrectionists.

But why is this? Well, the article argues that it's because people don't know the reasons for the pardons and that makes the issuance of the pardons themselves seem like an admission of guilt. But why don't people know the reasons? It's not as if they're mysterious or secret? We all (all of us who pay attention) know that Biden pardoned his family and others because Trump had promised to prosecute them regardless of the law. It's particularly glaring that they bother to try to make this argument because none of that is relevant to the main point of the article; that the reason Trump is pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists is "that since he got away with it, those who were acting on his behalf should as well", but that isn't something he can ever admit in public.

And look, if this were just one article that ignored the obvious, I could just get past it, but it's been over and over again for years now on multiple outlets that used to produce sound journalism. I get it, Biden didn't do great at communicating a lot of the time, but you're journalists! You're supposed to understand these things and explain to people how they work! If the people don't understand what's going on, that's not a politician's fault, it's yours!

We live in a country where a disturbing percentage of the population is uninformed about key issues and the reasons that things are happening and the people whose job it is to inform them about it are looking around like dull turkeys and wondering why. Journalists need to stop blaming everyone else and take a good long look in the mirror.

[mysharona1987]