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Distraction alert: tRump says he's planning a major pardon... (Original Post) cynatnite Aug 2020 OP
Roger Stone, probably. Yawn. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #1
Himself? n/t DonaldsRump Aug 2020 #2
I know Charlie Manson is dead...but OneBlueDotBama Aug 2020 #3
He's going to come up with something like this every day of the Democratic Convention. Arkansas Granny Aug 2020 #4
Manafort? This is just another distraction though from his insane tweets. cayugafalls Aug 2020 #5
Wasn't there supposed to be an 'important' announcement today, elleng Aug 2020 #6
Al Capone? MFM008 Aug 2020 #7
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted by The state of California nt maryellen99 Aug 2020 #10
did you miss the sarcasm? MFM008 Aug 2020 #15
The hedge clipper guy? Tanuki Aug 2020 #8
I predict one major, retroactive pardon for every day of the DNC. Laelth Aug 2020 #9
Snowden would create the most news and Trump needs a distraction. sarcasmo Aug 2020 #11
Joe Exotic come on down! BannonsLiver Aug 2020 #12
Very very important? Obviously he's pardoning himself. tinrobot Aug 2020 #13
Probably the racist driving around yelling at people in Florida. Renew Deal Aug 2020 #14

Arkansas Granny

(31,519 posts)
4. He's going to come up with something like this every day of the Democratic Convention.
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 08:26 PM
Aug 2020

He can't stand being upstaged.

cayugafalls

(5,641 posts)
5. Manafort? This is just another distraction though from his insane tweets.
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 08:27 PM
Aug 2020

That is all, distract, lie, distract, lie some more.

Tanuki

(14,919 posts)
8. The hedge clipper guy?
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 08:53 PM
Aug 2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1236083

"Louisiana’s Supreme Court declined last week to review the life sentence of a Black man who was convicted more than two decades ago of trying to steal a pair of hedge clippers, court documents show.

Fair Wayne Bryant, who is now in his 60s, had asked the court to review the sentence, which he’d argued in earlier appeals was “unconstitutionally harsh.” Five of the court’s seven justices, all white men, denied his request without saying why, a court spokeswoman told NBC News.

One justice, Scott Crichton, recused himself from the case, while Chief Justice Bernette Johnson, a Black woman, wrote in a dissent that the sentence was “excessive” and compared it to post-Reconstruction era laws that mandated harsh penalties for petty theft associated with poverty.

Those laws, she wrote, “were largely designed to re-enslave African Americans.”...(more)


Laelth

(32,017 posts)
9. I predict one major, retroactive pardon for every day of the DNC.
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 08:58 PM
Aug 2020

Monday: Charles Manson
Tuesday: Auguste Pinochet
Wednesday: Josef Stalin
Thursday: Adolf Hitler

That should clear things up and let us know where he really stands.



-Laelth

tinrobot

(10,903 posts)
13. Very very important? Obviously he's pardoning himself.
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 09:13 PM
Aug 2020

He's too self-absorbed to think anyone but himself is important.

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