Discussion: Report: Fox News' Pete Hegseth Lobbied Trump To Pardon Accused War Criminals

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Ok, I know FUX “air personalities” are evil, but calling them war criminals seems a tad harsh.

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I really don’t see why presidents are given the power to pardon.

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The head of the US government is in love with war criminals. Let that sink in. (But not too far.)

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You know, if you can’t shoot an innocent little girl once in awhile without someone theatening to throw you in jail over it, well, I just don’t know what this nation has become.

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“Fox News host Pete Hegseth has aggressively lobbied President Donald Trump in private to pardon several accused war criminals…”

Can a Trump pardon for John Wilkes Booth be far behind?

(At one time, that would’ve been snark; now, in the Post-Onion Age, I’m not so sure.)

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OT, but please TPM, I beg you to unravel this, because it seems so obvious that it’s a pro-GOP funded effort stationed in Europe to create baseless, unscientific “polling” and other data to support Faux News propaganda:

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/trolls-instagram-trump-2020-presidential-election

The report is abject idiocy (short, sloppy, Occam’s Razor be damned leaps in “logic” etc…and I encourage people to read it because it’s informative as to the kind of hot garbage the right is willing to produce to manufacture these narratives). They do things like act surprised and count it as evidence of “coordination” if one account posts a meme and another account posts a similar one 12 hours later…yes, they even count it when the background image used is the same but the words are different. Then, Faux News passes it off as a scientific/expert study in whether there is a massive, coordinated trolling effort to smear Trump and the people near him. This is, of course, to give them something from which to launch the narrative that the Dems might be coordinating with a foreign entity to have this done or at least fuel a “bothsiderism” narrative. I can’t express how utterly ridiculous and high-school-quality the report is though. You have to read it yourself.

“Ghost Data” appears to have no real digital footprint, doesn’t turn up immediate Google results or a wikipedia entry, etc., and I’m guessing it is newly formed and funded by Trump, the RNC and/or some pro-Trump PAC. It was no doubt established in Italy to make it harder for people to look into it.

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Government of the TV, by the TV, for the TV shall not perish from this hell on earth.

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Another lunatic with Chauncey Gardiner’s ear…

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Franklin Pierce pardoned Noah Hanson, a free black man who was tried and convicted of assisting slaves to escape, convicted in 1851; pardoned in 1854; only known Presidential pardon of a black person for Underground Railroad activities.

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I read earlier that Trump wanted to make these pardons part of his Memorial Day events, cause there’s nothing like pardoning war crimes on the day we remember those who have given their full measure. I also read that Joint Chiefs Chairman Dunford cancelled a trip to NATO HQ citing “unforeseen commitments” (whatever that means). I’ll bet a dollar Dunford is telling Trump to back the fuck off and let the UCMJ carry forth.

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I remember when MSNBC suspended Keith Olbermann from his show for a week or two because he failed to disclose to his bosses that he had made a donation to a Democratic congressman for his re-election campaign. Fox is so absolutely bereft of ethics and scruples that their “personalities” flaunt their unethical practices out in the open without so much as a letter in their file from their superiors.

P.S. I miss Keith.

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:notes: “Memories, memories, sweet, sweet memories, of days gone by” :notes:

:notes: "Memories, memories, sweet, sweet memories, of days gone by"

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He would pardon Jeffrey Dahmer except he’s afraid his hammer headed corpse would jump in the race as a Democratic candidate.

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Some things are irresistible.

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All things Italian are notoriously inscrutable. Giancarlo Giannini alone is a rabbit hole from which escape is nearly impossible.

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“A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.” ― DaShanne Stokes

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It would be interesting to get comments on this from John McCain’s family. McCain was a true war hero, as most of us know, so their take on what John McCain might have thought about such pardons would be useful to know.

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LOL…had to look him up…

Fox supports war criminals.

How is this news? They supported W.

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