ANSWER:
1) He would GAIN NONE. We’re all voting for him anyway.
2) He might LOSE some votes.
Remember Gerald Ford’s justification for the Nixon pardon: “He’s suffered enough.”
Beleive me, L.J., there were a lot of people, even Nixon haters, who did not want to see a President prosecuted like a common criminal.
Now HRC ... maybe.
First off, thanks for all the pings of support for the rule of law. Been a very busy day so far so it might be tough to get back online until tonight.
Disestablishmentarian, I will have to respectfully disagree with this. One thing we have learned with this Great Awakening movement is this culture, the deep state owns or influences is very, very corrupt (did we not learn from the Mueller Report or all the lies against our President?). Going back to this corrupt past will do absolutely nothing to restore the rule of law in this nation.
If you want to bring up Nixon's pardon, I'll give you this example of why it is wrong to let any of the corrupters off the hook. Remember, "...it was only sex" when it came to giving Slick Willie a pass? We all understood his crimes were far worse but we all let him have a pass because there was so much we now understand was stacked against us. This corrupt culture was protecting the corrupt status quo. Tell us how that all worked out since 8 years later we ended up with an even more corrupt, 0bama.
We just cannot allow this corrupt culture to define our futures anymore by being worried about what they think or what they may do. Just like, "...it was just sex", they will play on our "feelings" with "you can't put a former president on trial" or "...you can't for the good of the nation". You know it's coming if they still have the power to do so. I'm hoping they don't once all is revealed but we have to get their wicked ways out of our mindset.
We just can't afford to have another "0bama" 8 years down the road because we didn't have the cajones to put them down when we did. We need to quit caring about what their corrupt culture will do or think and do the right thing for the future of this nation.
CGato
I would humbly disagree very slightly with this:
We just can't afford to have another "0bama" 8 years down the road because we didn't have the cajones to put them down when we did. We need to quit caring about what their corrupt culture will do or think and do the right thing for the future of this nation.
A lot of already didn't care what they thought or did, and would have loved to see the corrupt Klinton go to prison. But we had no leader, no one in the presidency, to do it. We've seen what happened with when 0b0la was prez, even good guys like Gowdy and others could do nothing. When the President is corrupt and Congress is stuffed with corrupt vermin, the good guys in government are helpless to do what they want to do, what to speak of ordinary citizens. We were helpless.