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Distraction alert: tRump says he's planning a major pardon... (Original Post)
cynatnite
Aug 2020
OP
He's going to come up with something like this every day of the Democratic Convention.
Arkansas Granny
Aug 2020
#4
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,748 posts)1. Roger Stone, probably. Yawn.
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)2. Himself? n/t
OneBlueDotBama
(1,384 posts)3. I know Charlie Manson is dead...but
wouldn't put it past trump....
Arkansas Granny
(31,519 posts)4. He's going to come up with something like this every day of the Democratic Convention.
He can't stand being upstaged.
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)5. Manafort? This is just another distraction though from his insane tweets.
That is all, distract, lie, distract, lie some more.
elleng
(130,976 posts)6. Wasn't there supposed to be an 'important' announcement today,
from Barr???
MFM008
(19,818 posts)7. Al Capone?
The Rosenbergs?
Sirhan Sirhan?
Its hard to tell with this butt munch.
maryellen99
(3,789 posts)10. Sirhan Sirhan was convicted by The state of California nt
MFM008
(19,818 posts)15. did you miss the sarcasm?
Tanuki
(14,919 posts)8. The hedge clipper guy?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1236083
"Louisianas 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 hed argued in earlier appeals was unconstitutionally harsh. Five of the courts 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)
"Louisianas 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 hed argued in earlier appeals was unconstitutionally harsh. Five of the courts 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.
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
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)11. Snowden would create the most news and Trump needs a distraction.
BannonsLiver
(16,398 posts)12. Joe Exotic come on down!
tinrobot
(10,903 posts)13. Very very important? Obviously he's pardoning himself.
He's too self-absorbed to think anyone but himself is important.
Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)14. Probably the racist driving around yelling at people in Florida.