MSNBC just now reporting RUMP allies collected 10's of thousands of dollars selling pardons,

[bluestarone]

The fucking Senate RETHUGS could have stopped THIS a year ago, and did NOTHING!!

[2naSalit]

1. Guess there will be...

A RICO case after all.

[bluestarone]

9. I really really hope so!!

ANOTHER reason for the fucking senate to indict and REMOVE this son of a bitch!! Also stop him from running again!!

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

13. I have said the GOP/RNC needs to be RICO'd for 20 years...

... but I guess a case with irrefutable evidence had to be collected, first. Hint: Corporations are People, Too, Watergate and the campaign hijinks it exposed as being used, ... and then Citizen's United. If that isn't a racket from start to finish, then I don't know what is.

PS: I watched the AHC channel documentary on Bugsy Siegel last night...

[bullwinkle428]

2. I hope "QAnon Shaman's" mom has a big checkbook!

[secondwind]

3. I was waiting to see if there was any hard evidence of this.

Looks like there is. What a shitshow we have on our hands! Am now thinking that Jared really DID sell or give vaccines to his pals in SA. UGH

[Iliyah]

4. And the republicans remain silent .. . ...

actually the republican congresscritters probably already knew. That party is effed up.

[liberalmuse]

5. Any bought pardon should be recinded

And Trump should be required to return the money. At the very least.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Can you imagine being one of the prosecutors (some ARE republican, right?)

and watching all that work, all the preparation, the trial, the sentencing, etc. being demolished post facto. You did your duty for Society and the defendant gets back everything except time possibly incarcerated.

[Botany]

7. Grifters gotta grift

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[BComplex]

8. Glenn Kirshner has been saying that the FBI and DOJ people investigating were crooked.

I've been thinking these guys have been trying to get names named in order for trump to pardon them.

[Firestorm49]

10. How else is he going to pay off VTB?

[still_one]

11. Isn't that the definition of quid pro quo, and couldn't that be contested, money for a pardon?

[bluestarone]

14. EXACTLY!!

He's ALWAYS been quid pro quo!! God Dam rethugs are fucking crazy not to remove and stop him from EVER running again!! This creature has done more HARM to our country than anybody!! (along with his family)

[Hav]

12. It seems strange and wrong that something like this is legal

Even if it is, it's so corrupt and the very definition of the swamp: Those with power and money play under a different set of rules and don't have to fear any consequences because they can just buy themselves out of jail. I know trumpists are delusional but such clear cases should be obvious even to them.

[bluestarone]

15. Agree!

You can surely count on THIS family to find all the reasons destroy our constitution!!!!

[PatSeg]

16. They just can't help themselves

If there is a way to grift, they can't resist. And I think Trump would rather make money through corruption than legally. Guess it is more satisfying that way, like he's always getting away with something. I doubt it ever dawned on him to try and make money legally, too boring.

[bluestarone]

17. Yea no kidding

No PRISON will want him. He will completely destroy their prison too!! Only one place for this family and that is RUSSIA!!

[PatSeg]

18. Yes, what prison would want all that drama?

Russia sounds good, but I'll bet Putin doesn't want them either. I can picture him dodging Trump's frantic calls, "Oh sorry, you just missed him again, but I'll relay your message." Snicker.

[Doodley]

19. Tens of thousands? More like millions.

[Maraya1969]

20. This is why I hoped the FBI would wait until after the 20th to

start arresting all those insurrectionists.

If he pardons those people we are seriously fucked.

[jmowreader]

21. They can require "fruits of crime" be surrendered to the government

You realize if Biden’s DOJ is as good as we hope, the government will own several huge buildings and golf courses.

What would be really cool is if they turned Mar-a-Lago into an Armed Forces Recreation Center, like the Hale Koa Hotel in Hawaii, and let GIs stay there for $50 per night.