Posted on 05/17/2024 10:56:24 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Donald Trump poses an existential threat to liberal democracy; therefore, a reasonable reaction to his possible return to power has been to throw everything but the kitchen sink at him.
This ranged from supporting his impeachment and removal, to voting for his adversaries (including Nikki Haley), to charging him with 88 criminal offenses in four criminal cases.........
During an interview on Wednesday with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, Romney said that President Joe Biden should have “immediately pardoned” Trump from federal charges, and that Biden also “made an enormous error” by not pushing New York prosecutors to drop their charges against Trump in the hush money case......
At this point, you’re probably wondering what happened to Mitt Romney, and why he has been replaced by Steve Bannon. But there is a method to his madness. According to Romney, preemptively pardoning Trump would have helped Biden politically, positioning him as “the big guy” who “pardoned a little guy.”
At first blush, this sounds fanciful. Imagine the criticism Biden would have endured if, in the wake of the Big Lie and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, he threw Trump yet another lifeline.
But in hindsight, Romney’s counterfactual isn’t as crazy as it might sound. By going out of his way to treat Trump with the deference of a political invalid, Biden would have looked like the alpha dog.
Might Trump have rejected the offer, based on the premise that accepting a pardon is tantamount to admitting guilt? It hardly matters. Merely by offering the pardon, Biden would have deprived Trump of some of his most potent weapons—Trump’s identity as a victim of Biden’s “deep state,” as well as what is both his personal motivation and political organizing principle: retribution.
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That said, it's BS to expect the rat party to take the high road.
Stopped reading right there. That kind of hyperbole has grown tiresome.
He should have said "Donald Trump poses an existential threat to liberals" and it would have been more accurate.
Biden ordered the Trump Raid.
Romney can’t figure that out.
>> Romney can’t figure that out.
Romney couldn’t find his ass with both hands and someone holding a flashlight for him.
While I paused at the phrase, I decided it was true, Trump is a threat to “liberal democracy”, AKA the democrat party.
If it had said just “democracy” I would have probably done the same as you.
Romney can stuff his opinion into his magic underwear.
Trump needs no pardon.
This party doing this destruction is asking for war.
I found the passage I vaguely remembered:
“Perhaps the most important is that the president can only pardon federal offenses; he cannot interfere with state prosecutions. Also, the pardoning power only extends to criminal offenses; it does not preclude civil actions.”
Brookings Institution.
Romney has a point, it’s on the top of his head.
Exactly.
I believe you’re right that Biden’s fingerprints are all over the legal actions against Trump.
But officially for the record, lackeys such as Karine Jean-Pierre tell us that the president did not know about the raid at Mar-A-Lago ,and the president has no input on any decisions made by the justice department.
[Donald Trump poses an existential threat to liberal democracy
Stopped reading right there. That kind of hyperbole has grown tiresome.]
Yep. Always slanted to brainwash the idiots. I stopped right there as well.
This is sick!
Pardons are for guilty people.
The quisling Romney is pretending to “support” Trump.
He’s hoping for the long drop as opposed to the short drop when the people decide he’s been a traitor and backstabbing douche bag.
I remember reading somewhere that the brain functions for 10-12 seconds after decapitation. I guess that means one sees and is aware of their severed head dropping in the basket. Ah, the French and la guillotine.
When you say Rat Party, don’t you mean Uni Party? I mean Romney is the John McCain poster child for Uni Party Deep State. The Rats just love him.
“the brain functions for 10-12 seconds after decapitation. I guess that means one sees and is aware of their severed head dropping in the basket.”
Yikes! That would totally ruin your day.
Pardon for what? Trump has not committed a crime. Taking a pardon would in effect justify the RAT witch-hunt.
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