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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo qualify for a full pardon, Alice Johnson had to give a speech praising Trump at the RNC
Trump was just on MSNBC signing the pardon.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,829 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)The_Counsel
(1,660 posts)...Id say Trump had no idea there even IS a pardon process.
IggleDuer
(964 posts)N/T
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,829 posts)IggleDuer
(964 posts)Pardoning dead people with or without an application, is just a cheap publicity stunt.
bullimiami
(13,082 posts)Otherwise I guess we can add sellout to her resume after drug-kingpin.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)It's just that Trump doesn't do anything out of the goodness of his heart or because it's the right thing. He demands something in return that will benefit him always.
Sogo
(4,986 posts)AleksS
(1,665 posts)Not that anyone would ever dream of doing anything about it in any event.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)AleksS
(1,665 posts)Yup. There's always some kickback. He's always going to get his "cut." I just hope he's getting senile enough that he asks for the bribe on the record. He's not a smart man.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Retrograde
(10,132 posts)and that lesson was that he can do whatever he wants to with no repercussions from a Republican senate.
uponit7771
(90,323 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)against black apartment applicants by putting a 'C' for colored, how he demonized the Central Park 5, how he regularly used the N word according to his niece, how he puts brown kids in cages, etc.
She's a prop being used to appease the conscience of white moderates. 'See, Trump is not a racist.'
maxrandb
(15,310 posts)required a Non-disclosure Agreement?
moondust
(19,966 posts)struggle4progress
(118,268 posts)... (b) Whoever .. .
(2) being a public official .. , directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for:
(A) being influenced in the performance of any official act ...
shall be fined under this title or not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than fifteen years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States ...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)So she gets a pardon and Kanye is running to syphon votes away from Biden? Sounds a little illegal.