• LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Wait, as in a presidential pardon for a prolific underage sex trafficer, despite a Supreme Court ruling? Lmao.

    Clown country. What does Faux News say? Lol

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      They’ll defend the pedophiles and billionaires*, as usual.

      *Whoops, sorry for what seems like redundancy more and more.

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        100,000% this.

        It’s what they were made to do: entrench the privilege of the wealthy via propaganda.

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    “I will speak to the DOJ,” he added. “I wouldn’t consider it or not consider it.”

    This man (and I use the term very loosely) has no clue what the fuck words mean 🤦

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      Listen to the full quote, it’s clear that he’s just bullshitting/vamping because he genuinely doesn’t remember anything about the topic he’s being asked about. He forgot who she is. This is also a massive cause for concern, obviously.

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        Listen to the full quote

        No thanks, I already get exposed to plenty of his ramblings in text. I draw the line at actively looking to listen to him.

        it’s clear that he’s just bullshitting/vamping

        I’m pretty sure that’s 99% of what he ever says when Stephen Miller hasn’t written a tirade for him.

        he genuinely doesn’t remember anything about the topic he’s being asked about. He forgot who she is. This is also a massive cause for concern, obviously.

        Yup. In a sane world, he’d be in an assisted living facility, not the dictator of the richest and most powerful country in the history of the planet.

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    “I’m shocked. Just shocked,” he said cynically.

    Does there exist a red-line which MAGA cultists, conservatives, moderates, and all the flavors of the left can agree upon? My brain says no, but my heart says maybe this could be it.

    I sincerely don’t see how anyone could defend this. I’m sure they’ll try, though.

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      The red line should have been Trump admitting on tape to being a sex offender.

      All this shows is that the cultists have literally zero morals

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      They’re already excusing it saying it’s so that she can’t plead the fifth when she gets subpoenaed for cases against people she trafficked for.

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    Is he so senile he doesn’t remember her, in which case remove him from office, or is h he really going to look into pardoning one of the biggest child traffickers ever, in which case remove him from office.

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    CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about the possibility of a pardon for Maxwell at an Oval Office event on Monday.
    “I haven’t heard the name in so long,” the president responded. “I can say this, that I’d have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look.”

    Who is that? I barely even remember who that is.

    jfc how has this horror show of a human being courted votes?

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    The thing about a pardon is that you can be forced to testify afterwards because the information cannot be used to incriminate you so the Fifth Amendment doesn’t apply anymore

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    Whyyyyy?

    Seriously, this behavior only makes sense as someone with blackmail. Why not just, I dunno, ignore it? Why bring chance of the pardon back into potential? Why remind people of the Epstein files?

    I’m glad in some sense that he’s exposing his vulnerabilities in broad daylight. Seems like a really dull minded decision on his part.