did the fucker do his "very important pardon"

[demtenjeep]

yet?

or was that just something to try and distract?

[Wounded Bear]

1. Yes, he did....wait for it....wait for it....

It was Susan B. Anthony

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Yes. It was Susan B. Anthony.

She's long been dead.

It was a pathetic attempt at pandering which pretty much fell flat.

[WyattKansas]

15. His campaign's attempt to peel off more of the female vote.

He really is lost in Loonyville.

[tanyev]

16. Just wait until she starts tweeting her support for Donny's reelection.

[Retrograde]

17. Hey, if Herman Cain can tweet from the grave

why not Susan B Anthony? Maybe she can get her colleague Fred Douglass to add his two cents as well!

[Karadeniz]

3. I missed this...

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Susan B. Anthony. n/t

[snacker]

5. Yes...are you ready?

He pardoned Susan B. Anthony.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-b-anthony-trump-pardon-19th-amendment-100th-anniversary/

[demtenjeep]

6. Susan B Anthony? WTF

that is fucking funny

[irisblue]

13. It is also a sop to right to life pol action group/evangelicals

http://www.sba-list.org/

[Chainfire]

7. That was to show he has a fair and balanced Pardon policy. ;)

[PuppyBismark]

8. She was arrested on state charges. Nothing to pardon

What an idiot!

[former9thward]

9. No, they were federal charges.

United States v. Susan B. Anthony if you want to look it up.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Both state and federal charges.

She was charged with violating the federal Enforcement Act of 1870 and also New York law by illegally voting, and was fined $100. Trump can't have pardoned the state charge. More importantly, she wouldn't have wanted to be pardoned because she believed her vote was legal, and she never did pay the fine.

[former9thward]

14. The poster I was replying to said it was "idiotic" to believe that there were federal charges.

I am not going to reach back to determine the thoughts of someone who has been dead over a hundred years. I don't know whether she would want it or not. A pardon is not an acceptance of a guilty verdict despite the erroneous claims here that it is. Maybe Cuomo should pardon her on the state charge.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. The Susan B. Anthony Museum also believes she would have rejected the pardon.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/objection-susan-b-anthony-museum-rejects-trumps-pardon-of-the-suffragist/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Susan B. Anthony, who has been dead for more than 100 years, was charged

under state law as well as federal law, so he couldn't pardon her on the state charge; and she wouldn't have wanted to be pardoned anyhow because she was proud of her attempt to vote, believing it was legal - and she refused ever to pay the fine. The real reason he did it, beyond pure pandering, is that she was posthumously made a symbol of the anti-choice movement. This is a dog-whistle to that crowd. There is an anti-abortion organization that even uses her name, SBA-List, but there is very little evidence that she actively opposed abortion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_abortion_dispute#:~:text=Anthony%20Museum%20and%20House%2C%20said,wanted%20it%20banned%20by%20law.%22

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. "I've done more for dead women than any President in American history"