{"id":136654,"date":"2018-05-31T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136654"},"modified":"2018-06-01T08:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T14:01:38","slug":"and-you-get-a-pardon-and-you-get-a-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/31\/and-you-get-a-pardon-and-you-get-a-pardon.html","title":{"rendered":"“And YOU get a pardon, and YOU get a pardon…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump loves pardoning. He loves it so much, he skips all that annoying “process” stuff, and just does it directly.<\/p>\n

He especially likes pardoning folks prosecuted by the previous Administration, because he can. And because of the message it sends to his own people under indictment or investigation, and to the investigators and prosecutors pursuing them.<\/p>\n


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Trump loves pardoning. He loves it so much, he skips all that annoying “process” stuff, and just does it directly. He especially likes pardoning folks prosecuted by the previous Administration, because he can. And because of the message it sends to his own people under indictment or investigation, and to the investigators and prosecutors pursuing … Continue reading ““And YOU get a pardon, and YOU get a pardon…””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,715,358,1071],"tags":[1649,1650,1077],"class_list":["post-136654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-crime-punishment","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-dsouza","tag-pardon","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dinesh-dsouza.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160328,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/02\/111679703801142136.html","url_meta":{"origin":136654,"position":0},"title":"The Pro-Active Pardon","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Jan-24 12:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Haley and DeSantis belittle the rule of law by preemptively declaring they would pardon Trump were they elected President","rel":"","context":"In "~Toots"","block_context":{"text":"~Toots","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/toot"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136681,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/the-unindictable-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":136654,"position":1},"title":"The Unindictable President","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Jun-18 7:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"It came out over the weekend that, back in January, Trump's lawyers contacted Mueller's office to basically say, \"Yeah, the president can't be indicted for anything and he can't obstruct justice because he is the head of the justice services in the government.\" L'etat c'est moi! 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