Trump Pardons Bannon Hours Before Leaving Office
Source: New York Times
The president made the decision to pardon Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, after a day of frantic efforts to sway his thinking. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, said the mob that stormed the Capitol was fed lies, referring to President Trumps efforts to overturn the election.
President Trump has granted clemency to Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House chief strategist who was charged with defrauding people who supported building a border wall that Mr. Trump supported, White House officials said.
The president made the decision after a day of frantic efforts to sway his thinking, including from Mr. Bannon, who spoke to him by phone earlier on Tuesday.
The pardon was described as a pre-emptive move that would effectively wipe away the charges against Mr. Bannon, should he be convicted.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/19/us/inauguration-day-biden
Surprised, NOT!
Jon King
(1,910 posts)You can not make this stuff up. Bannon tricks Trumpers to send him money for a fake wall. Then he steals it and Trump pardons him. Trumpers are true masochists.
NYC Liberal
(20,231 posts)hibbing
(10,194 posts)Diraven
(756 posts)I don't think a pardon covers that
Botany
(71,218 posts)Yup! Trump supporters have to be the dumbest people in the world. They watch old Walker Texas
Ranger shows and are shocked when Chuck Norris kicks the bad guy in the head.
turtleblossom
(504 posts)NotASurfer
(2,219 posts)The stuff the FBI maybe knows he knows, now that he can't plead the 5th and he doesn't have somebody dangling a pardon to reward silence or lies?
pbmus
(12,428 posts)YOU BIG DUMB MF, IF YOU DONT PARDON ME, I WILL WRITE A TELL ALL BOOK THAT WILL INSTANTLY PUT YOUR ORANGE ASS IN JAIL FOREVER...
cstanleytech
(26,596 posts)still continue.
RockRaven
(15,580 posts)every person remotely related to every. single. thing. covered by his pardon. There are other criminals touching almost all of his criminality. He's done nothing in a vacuum, so force him to turn on them, or burn himself with new crimes.
ANY non-cooperation or lying should be doggedly pursued for criminal contempt, obstruction, or lying to federal agent charges as appropriate. And if he does none of that??? Great! So you're saying he's a reliable witness?!? Make him testify EXTENSIVELY against every. last. defendant. in any case in which his testimony applies.
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)would be coming tonight.
The way this president has abused the pardon power is astonishing! I have to believe the rest that will come in the next 12 hours will be an incredible collection. He has worked the pardon power to benefit his friends, friends of friends, or (gasp) we'll probably identify some that have been outright sold.
Drain the swamp my ass!
turtleblossom
(504 posts)James48
(4,516 posts)Thats all that remains of Trumps pardon power.
Surely Bannon must have violated some state statute in all of that.
Twelve more hours of the greatest danger to democracy, and the criminal conspiracy coconspirator will be finished.
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Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)badboy67
(460 posts)SeattleVet
(5,516 posts)They are VERY different things.
Even the original article at the NYT flips back and forth, using the terms.
ancianita
(37,222 posts)You just don't want those two out in the same free air together. Bad things happen.
SeattleVet
(5,516 posts)(Long list!)
Stephen K. Bannon President Trump granted a full pardon to Stephen Bannon. Prosecutors pursued Mr. Bannon with charges related to fraud stemming from his involvement in a political project. Mr. Bannon has been an important leader in the conservative movement and is known for his political acumen.
PatrickforO
(14,760 posts)And Bannon is among the worst of the worst.
Warpy
(112,249 posts)A pardon in this case is the same as a full confession of guilt, which is not going to serve him well in civil court when the people he bilked come looking for the money he and his cronies stole.
The Erickson and Broidy pardons are just as offensive.
C Moon
(12,356 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)trump is saying its ok to defraud his supporters ,and steal their money. Bannon by accepting it is accepting guilt,and a ripe target for prosecutors to go after a treasure trove of incriminating evidence against a lot of people. .Bad move by trump, he will tell the truth rather than go to prison
Ford_Prefect
(8,122 posts)Bannon and Miller both need to face the music over their crimes against humanity. These are also not covered in the pardon.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,845 posts)So it's not that Trump is claiming this was not a significant crime; it's that he lets his cronies get away with crimes.
intheflow
(28,718 posts)I do not understand why this was embedded in the Constitution to begin with, except of course, rich white men protecting rich white men.