Likely to be issued at times when distraction is needed and when he needs to remind Pauly and Cohen to “Hang in there”
It’s easy, first of all. None of that dumb old boring adult stuff like work involved. And then there’s just something about helping guilty people evade justice that’s strangely compelling, he finds.
It’s the one thing he can do just by wanting to. He needs to corral Congress for legislation. He’s learned that bullying on Twitter doesn’t whip the votes. He’s tried foreign policy where he can do things on his own without Congress, but he’s found that other countries push back. But a pardon? He can just say it and it happens.
And I’m sure all of these, just as his previous pardons, will be consistent with and go through the long-standing process set up by DOJ and administrations past to thoughtfully and properly consider the need for a pardon to bring about compassionate justice.
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardon-information-and-instructions
Of course he likes them, it’s the sort of thing he can do by fiat, without any oversight or questioning, just like those dictators get to do in those real countries like NK or Belarus.
Plus some hot babe asked him to do it.
Well, I guess we know what Donnie Two-scoops is thinking about 24/7 these days.
I never thought I’d read a headline about an American President obsessing about the pardon power.
[quote]Trump is “obsessed” with pardons, which this person characterized as Trump’s “favorite thing” to discuss with aides.
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Toddlers are obsessed with pooping.
Despite de gustibus non disputandum, I’m going down that well anyway. When did Kim Kardashian become a hot babe?
It reminds me of when I played with toys in the bathtub, lo those many years ago. Mommy let me choose which toys I could take to the tub on any given evening. I found the power to choose all by myself exhilarating.
Trump is a four-year-old. Again.
When we were young there was a TV Show that Oprah kind of preempted, it was called Queen For a Day, where people who had suffered serial misfortune competed for the votes of the judges to receive the TV Network’s prizes of refrigerators, automobiles, homes and other largesse for being a model of the “deserving poor.” Trump, with his only real instincts for schlock, fake reality TV show appeal, is onto something that he feels he is good at, unlike all this other troublesome vexatious governing with accountability bullshit that is a bummer and requires him to have an attention span of more than 10 minutes.
Personally, I’ve always wished presidents would use the pardon power a lot more than they have. But, of course, this man baby can’t be trusted to use that power even remotely responsibly. But it’s not shocking that he loves the one thing he can absolutely do without anyone stopping him.
The Kardashian factor looms large. Both of them.
Queen for a Day is perfect! Do you suppose he will have the crowd vote for who gets the pardon at the next Trumpapalooza rally?
Do you suppose anyone in Congress will find that to be inappropriate? I don’t either.
Additional point here: DJT is normalizing impulsive presidential pardons, so that when it comes time for Pence (post DJT resignation) to pardon him, the base will support it. $100 says he’s already had this conversation with Pence.
Freaking out, by the freak in the White House who is obsessed with Twitter. Wow what is presidential library will say about him if he makes it that far. Thoroughly disgusting.
A good clue for beneficiaries of pardons would be to Google “Apprentice show cast members with criminal convictions or pending criminal charges”.
He likely fantasizes sitting on his throne at the Roman Coliseum as the people breathlessly watch and wait for his thumbs up or down.
Donald Trump’s presidential library will consist of his Tweets, the books the Bureau of Prisons allowed his friends to send him (directly from Amazon or other book vendors) so they could collect dust on the shelf in his cell, and the TV units from the White House and his cell. Also the sycophant letters to prison from Allen Dershowitz, Rudy Giuliani, and Sean Hannitty.