No pardons for the MAGA's...

[LakeVermilion]

With his statement of peaceful transition last night, Trump indicated that the law breakers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

I guess their hope of pardons is gone. Sucks to be them. For sure its going to cost them some money for attorneys.

[NCjack]

1. Forget buying Greenland. We need to buy Devil's Island.

[essaynnc]

2. Don't they have to be convicted before they are pardoned?

There can't be a blanket presidential pardon for all Magats that might have committed a crime, right? In less than two weeks, he can't pardon anybody.

[NYC Liberal]

4. No conviction required and blanket pardons are allowed.

He could issue a blanket pardon for “every person involved in committing a crime on January 6 in or around the Capitol” if he wanted to.

Here’s Carter’s blanket pardon of all the Vietnam War draft dodgers:

I, Jimmy Carter, President of the United States, do hereby grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to: (1) all persons who may have committed any offense between August 4, 1964 and March 28, 1973 in violation of the Military Selective Service Act or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder; and (2) all persons heretofore convicted, irrespective of the date of conviction, of any offense committed between August 4, 1964 and March 28, 1973 in violation of the Military Selective Service Act, or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, restoring to them full political, civil and other rights.

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/proclamations/04483.html

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. Trump incited a murder.

Trump took the risk of engineering an overthrow of the Constitution. He failed. Now he'll be prosecuted as an accomplice to a murder.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Carter gave a blanket pardon to those who evaded the draft (a crime).

Trump can issue pardons up until the time Biden takes the oath of office as far as I know.

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. No. Never trust ANYTHING Trump says. He's a pathological liar.

Pardons will be gone WHEN THE IMPEACHMENT PETITIONS are received on the floor of the House.

[BannonsLiver]

6. I doubt they were coming anyway

Most of the people lazily predicting pardons here didn’t take into account virtually all of Dump’s pardons have been transactional, and these people have nothing to offer him.

[dweller]

8. Better see his latest teeet

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214855167

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