Assange hasn’t been convicted so he can’t be pardoned. Though I am assuming Trump knows anything about legal processes - which is a bit of a reach.
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Hmmmmmmm and why would he do that?
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I’ve been told I’m disappointing when drunk.
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Given the timing of the announcement, he’s likely trying to get some good PR, and will probably pardon someone who’s popular among at least part of the population. My guess is that it’s Martha Stewart. That would also be in line with the record low enforcement actions taken against insider trading lately.
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Maybe Harvey Weinstein? The MAGA crowd seem to be obsessed with him.
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Would Snowden accept a pardon, given that traditionally doing so is supposed to involve admitting guilt?
Anyway, @MaiqTheLiar and @LDoBe, that was my first thought to, there’s no one else he considers very important.
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I assume it will be Joe Exotic
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I don’t think Snowden disputes that he is guilty of what he’s been charged with. Just that it shouldn’t be prosecuted and that he should be in whistleblower protection rather than being hunted.
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There isn’t anybody who isn’t disappointing when drunk.
ETA @VeronicaConnor beat me to it.
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True. I think he’s also said he’d stand trial if he believed he’d get a fair and public one? Which a pardon would, of course, circumvent.
Then why is he so happy?
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Why did you fart?
The funniest thing I have read in a long time
It’s probably some Epstein associate who will have an ironically fatal accident out of jail.
Unless of course it is Bill Posters?
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this announcement (or similar ridiculous announcement) is so predictable. gotta knock those left wing radicals off the front page. so we can all play the “which scumbag will he pardon that will be the biggest distraction” game.
well, i don’t want to play.
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Why is media still reporting on, and we’re still discussing, random things Trump SAYS. It’s all meaningless and mostly lies or nonsense. Please report on things he and especially his cobbled together chaotic executive branch of donors, cronies, and enablers is actually DOING. We need to know and focus on that.
(Granted this one seems pretty straightforward, unless he just forgets about it today and pretends he never said it, which I guess is equally possible.)
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Maybe Manafort?
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Gonna guess either Bernie Madoff, or Elizabeth Holmes. If it’s Holmes, it’s so she can run his coronavirus testing program.
ETA: Blagojevich, who’s sentence Trump commuted, is headlining a fundraiser for Trump, so maybe as a quid pro quo he’s getting a pardon. Maybe he’ll be a surprise speaker at the RNC convention, giving an non self-aware speech on how democrats are corrupt.
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Unlike the guy who teases a nothing burger of a pardon, who is disappointing even though he supposedly doesn’t drink.
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Trumpy and his best pal, the Hamberderler.
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Well, he’s already kind of f-ed himself with the hint. The odds that the average American is going to agree that whoever he pardons is “very, very important” are non-existent. Important how? No one guessed thusfar would be considered even slightly important.
As a showman, he sucks. He hypes everything to the point disappointment is inevitable.
As an aside, I glanced over this:
There is some funny stuff in there. Like this:
" Armand Hammer – CEO of the Occidental Petroleum Company, contributed $110,000 to the Republican National Committee just before his pardon. Pardoned for illegally contributing $54,000 to Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign in 1972."
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