Had to remind myself who this this guy is…
Go ahead, then he’s free to spill his guts about you, just like Flynn can now?
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Oh man, Joe Exotic bribing Trump for a pardon would be one of the 2020est things ever.
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they should open the flood GATES and leave no STONE unturned investigating this. Whoever it is must have thought he’d be In Like FLYNN.
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Came here to say this. Forensics 101.
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Soon to be pre-emptive blanket pardon for bribery for pre-emptive blanket pardon scheme…
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Going to need the precogs on that one.
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It’s pardons all the way down.
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Someone brought up a very good point last night that he can pardon people al day long, NONE of which would apply to any state or local charges, but neither will they apply to any FUTURE crimes, as in when all of the trump criminal family have to file taxes in 2021 and beyond. I’m sure the Biden administration will be going over those returns with a fine tooth comb.
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This.
These people are all self-deluded as to their own importance, and have neither the intelligence nor self-restraint needed to not continue committing crimes. Drumpf can pardon them all today, but they’ve already got all the runway they need in front of them come January 21st.
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Came here for this. Sadly for trump, there’s probably no one he can get to bribe him to pardon himself for his bribery-for-pardon scheme.
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Fun fact, pardons can be secret.
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Even under FOIA?
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In theory possibly. In practice that secrecy would only last until someone was charged with the crime they were pardoned for.
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Just wow. Fucker never ceases to amaze.
Salon reports that Mike Flynn’s pardon is extraordinarily broad.
So things like this might well be part of Flynn’s sordid past.
Do pardons preclude rendition?
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Not that his present is any less sordid. He’s celebrating his pardon by continuing to do Putin’s bidding.
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Via Time:
Can Trump pardon people in secret?
In theory, yes. Pardons are typically vetted by the Office of the Pardon Attorney in the Justice Department. But the regulations governing that process don’t interfere with or supersede the president’s constitutional authority on this issue, which mentions nothing about needing to notify the public of a pardon.
There’s a real historical example of a secret pardon scandal on the state level. In 2003, it came to light that South Dakota governors had granted numerous pardons over decades, the names and records of which had been kept hidden under a 1983 law. It created an uproar in the state, the New York Times reports, and brought attention to the law, which said every document from arrest to conviction could be sealed after a pardon was granted.
But that’s a state law, so it wouldn’t work the same way in the White House. If a recipient of a presidential pardon were subsequently indicted, the pardon would be revealed during the proceedings. In 2017, a Democratic congressman introduced a billthat would force the White House to announce the recipients of presidential pardons, over fears that Trump would quietly issue pardons to his aides and family members involved in Mueller’s investigation.
But “long-term secrecy is not the danger because if authorities ever attempt to file charges or pass a sentence, the pardon would come to light,” Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, who introduced the bill, told TIME in a statement at the time. (The bill was then re-introduced in 2019 after it didn’t receive a vote in a previous session of Congress, but it hasn’t passed.)
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Given that it’s this Justice Department, I’m going to go ahead and assume they’re investigating the Obama Administration.
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