Trump Wants Wall Built By Election Day, Encourages Officials To Break Law If Needed

President Trump is so eager to deliver on his 2016 campaign promise of a border wall that he’s told officials he will pardon them if they have to break the law in order to get it constructed by election day, The Washington Post reported.


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He knows he can’t pardon someone convicted of a state crime, right?

Another vomitous day before 9 am.

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A White House official told the Post that Trump was joking about the pardons.

Man, this guy is just a barrel of laughs isn’t he? What a card!

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It almost like the wall is more of a political point than actual realistic policy, weird

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He should pardon Kellyanne Conway for her singing …

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Of course not. He has no grasp of what powers he does or doesn’t have–or which have been arrogated to him by corrupt enablers–and there’s no one anywhere in his orbit with the guts or ethics to tell him “that’s impossible, sir.”

Mad King.

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His pardons carry no weight in the Hague…

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Let me just stop you there… No he doesn’t.

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Good luck with all this especially the take the land part. When you’re a king or dictator there are no limits in what you can do.

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In short, Trump’s regime is using money stolen from Congress (that wasn’t appropriated for the wall) and now call for law breaking to build part of his stupid wall.

The Trump regime is officially an open criminal enterprise. They don’t even pretend to hide it anymore.

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Yeah that’s the ticket. FK the law…only losers obey the law. It’s those pesky Democrats trying to make us look BAD.

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FIFY

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At some point, they’re bound to try Photoshopping a big, spiky, impressive wall into pictures, and then calling the Dems conspiracy theorists when they say it isn’t really there.

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The chief LEO in the country is encouraging people to break the law. Well that’s certainly different. But wait… it’s trump. Imagine trump’s reaction if Obama did this.

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Yeah, take away land from Texans without due process. That should go over bigly in 2020.

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Yeah, they’d probably have to take their guns away to do it. Not enough popcorn in the world for that.

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Not hiding their crimes makes an investigation of trump that much easier.

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Another count for the bill of impeachment.

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Jerry Nadler plans to hold hearings and compel testimony on this matter. Sometime. Soon. 2023 maybe. After a thorough investigation.

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It’s just the prosecuting part we can no longer manage.

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