TPM "Gaetz Urges Trump To Go Wild With Pardons, Including A Self-Pardon, To Own The Libs"

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gaetz-urges-trump-to-go-wild-with-pardons-including-a-self-pardon-to-own-the-libs

(My, doesn't he just have a face that deserves a good pummeling)

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), one of President Donald Trump’s top allies in Congress, on Tuesday night encouraged Trump to pardon himself and a litany of other people before his presidency ends in January.


During an interview with Fox News, Gaetz applauded reports of Trump’s plan to pardon former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

“President Trump should pardon Michael Flynn. He should pardon the Thanksgiving turkey. He should pardon everyone, from himself to his administration officials to Joe Exotic if he has to,” the GOP congressman said, referring to the star of the Netflix series “Tiger King,” who was convicted for animal abuse and a murder-for-hire plot.

“Because you see from the radical left a bloodlust that will only be quenched if they come after the people who’ve worked so hard to animate the Trump administration with the policies and the vigor and the effectiveness that delivered for the American people,” he continued. “So I think that the President ought to wield that pardon power effectively and robustly.”

(end of article but there is a vid clip of he on Fox at the link above)

[marmar]

1. If there was a picture next to "Dumb Frat Boy Who Never Grows Up" ......

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. your are far too kind!

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Dumb Drunk Frat Boy

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Is this a schtick or do they really fucking believe this bullshit?

Trump administration with the policies and the vigor and the effectiveness that delivered for the American people,

[gratuitous]

4. A quarter million pandemic dead

And Gaetz says we have bloodlust. Sure thing, chief. What's Nestor think about that?

[Turbineguy]

6. Headlines we'd like to see in the supermarket tabloids.

"Matt Gaetz Autopsy Pix!

[maryellen99]

7. Does that include posthumously pardoning Tim McVeigh, Matt?

[malaise]

8. At what point with Speaker Pelosi censure these enablers? n/t

[dustyscamp]

9. Karma needs to come down hard on Gaetz

[Raster]

10. The House should IMPEACH tRump* again...

...his pardon power may be limited, as he could not pardon anyone involved with his own impeachment.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. Shut up, Matt. You're drunk. nt

[beachbumbob]

12. I hope he does self-pardon as a very good chance even a conservative supreme court would invalidate

on standards of one can not pardon self for crimes one committed, otherwise how did governors get convicted? Like judge can not rule on his own cases against himself

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Trump researched Presidential Pardons and kept criming afterwards.

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How can a self-pardon hold water if the person doing the pardoning was researching if they can self-pardon before going out on a crime spree?

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[beachbumbob]

14. this will be a supreme court test 100% guaranteed, trump has NO redo if they invalidate it and then

he faces the full wrath of the DOJ on every level. I truly want to self-pardon as I see it will fail the SC test

[TheBlackAdder]

15. I read somewhere that grants can only be bestowed on other people. One in power to another.

[beachbumbob]

16. the constitution is unclear as the founding fathers never envision a crooked president that was not

removed via impeachment