Discussion: Giuliani: Mueller Probe Defendants 'Not Excluded' From Presidential Pardons

Man, that photo just highlights how weird the thumb is. I mean, look at it. It’s not just offset to be opposable, the last bone skews outward… I mean, I guess that helps it be a stable base against which the fingers manipulate objects, but… damn, that looks odd.

What? Was I supposed to be paying attention to something Rudy was saying? Studies show that causes brain cancer, so I stopped.

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Francis the Talking Mule is at it again. :horse: I don’t understand what he’s saying, but he looks ridiculous saying it.

Rudy, are you trying to secure a pardon for yourself? Not a bad idea, maybe.

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Seriously. This is exactly what the putrid traitor was hired for… to hold as big a megaphone as Orange Fuckface’s fatass and scream what OF would say. And the media keep handing him that megaphone? Goddamn…

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Repeat after me: Obstruction, Obstruction, Obstruction.

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Respectfully -

this brainless slavery is precisely what Dim-sum Don WANTS to be on the airwaves - because he knows that his mindless minions are of the same decayed mind on this.

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(beat me 2 it - cheers!)

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It is mindboggling the type of drek the media passes along as newsworthy. Seriously! All the sensational distractions are fogging up the real stories. Get a grip, media, they need to take a pass on ghonani, TPM included (though TPM does a great job on presenting and helping us inderstand the stories and issues at hand).

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Unfortunately, he probably won’t see it - I understand “cell” reception is terrible (Badum, tish!)

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Can we get this clown in front of Katy Tur, please? She’s been on a roll lately and I’d love to see her provide Rudy with a little ventilation. How is this not witness tampering?

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Tapper asked whether Giuliani’s talk about pardons was meant to send a signal to defendants in the Mueller probe: “Some people think that this is the President and you suggesting, signaling really, ‘Don’t cooperate with prosecutors because a pardon is there if you just hold on.’”

I don’t think that’s the interpretation,” Giuliani responded. “It’s certainly not intended that way.

“What I mean is, you’re not going to get a pardon just because you’re involved in this investigation,” he said. “You probably have a higher burden if you’re involved in this investigation as compared to the others who get pardons, but you’re certainly not excluded from it, if in fact the President and his advisers — not me — come to the conclusion that you’ve been treated unfairly.”

Doesn’t mean that anybody should rely on it,” Giuliani added later in his answer, noting other presidents who he said had issued pardons “in these political investigations.”

Though no one should be surprised by who he considers to be worthy, but this is the part where Giuliani should have been asked to give up names.

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oh, what he says is newsworthy. The problem that I have with this interview, is that Giuliani isn’t being asked to name names.

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Giuliani - counting off the number of Articles of Impeachment that already would have been filed against a Democratic president …

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:white_check_mark: True That!

For heavens sake! The Media is complicit in providing the megaphone & forum to this criminal Trump regime to spin continously - NOT only troll.

Watch Jake Tapper and Chuck Todd on their respective channel this morning, provide Santorium and Giuliani the space to spew vile misinformation to their receptive 32% of Americans.

When is this nightmare going to end?
…only when the remaining 68% rise up and crush this emerging crypto-fascism, the gawdawful Media it’s riding on, and the 32% amoral deplorables!

Its way past time to call a spade a spade.

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Tell me how "If I tell conspirators that Trump is going to pardon people they will charge me with obstruction so I am not, but you know he can if he wants to, " is substantially different from “beautiful little store you have here Mr. Smith, it would be a shame if something happened to it. Not that I am threatening but it would be a shame.”

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So I know we have a republic supreme court and chief justice, but I think there’s a good argument to be made that “except in cases of impeachment” includes witnesses and co-conspirators.

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I doubt whether the people who pleaded guilty or have been indicted take comfort from Rudy’s gobble-de-gook. You’re not excluded, you could be pardoned, but maybe not. I’m telling Trump don’t do it. What is the newsworthy message? Maybe?

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Congress is under the control of the modern day Republican party.

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The rest of their product would easily surpass Rudy’s spew in both coherence and intelligence.

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Shorter, clearer, Rudy: derp Trump derp derp derp I meant the opposite of what I just said derp derp derp no the other opposite derp. Hiccup.

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I’m sorry Captain Squirreltown …
but the universal translator is being jammed . "

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