I’m detecting a strategy at work in all these Trump pardons.
The DOJ has gone rogue and is steamrolling over people, locking them up for serious jail time over relatively minor charges. Meanwhile Hillary & Co. skate.
He is preparing public opinion for a wave of DOJ firings. Perhaps even Mueller himself.
Martha is a great idea.
The day the DOJ firings happen it should be a holiday.
He is preparing public opinion for a wave of DOJ firings. Perhaps even Mueller himself.
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No better time than right after the Horowitz report is released. He should address the nation to fully expose the corrosive political weaponization of federal agencies and immediately start the wave of DOJ firings. He needs to clean house.
The public will support him because they are sick and tired of the corruption.
I think he is trolling the demacrat party with this. he wants to get them to complain about the pardons so that he can bring up the pardons that both bill and Obama did when they left office.
Stewart was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators. She got five months. That's "serious jail time"?
With the Blagovich thing, he may also be preparing all of us for an Obama pardon...which then opens everyone up to Obama to great jeopardy. Obama is the cover for everyone up through Loretta Lynch, Brennan and Clapper. You pardon Obama and you can sic the Hounds of Hell onto everyone up to him...without seeing inner cities burn from riots and rebellion.
I suspect he is trying to trigger and gaslight certain factions into going ballistic; it will be instructive as to who rises to take the bait!
“He is preparing public opinion for a wave of DOJ firings. Perhaps even Mueller himself.”
No way is Trump dumb enough to do that! That’s what his enemies have been baiting him to do for over a year - lose his temper like Nixon and start his own Saturday Night Massacre.
That worked out so well for Nixon, when he ordered his AGs to fire the Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. I’m sure Trump can’t wait to follow that advice. /S
But you’re right, there is a strategy behind these pardons. He is sending the message that he considers those past DOJ witch hunts to be illegitimate - that the “politically weaponized” DOJs of past administrations were abusive.
He understands that delegitimizing past DOJ prosecutions also discredits the current witch hunt against him - which, although it operates out of his own DOJ, is entirely independent of his authority.
Trump must not show even the slightest sign of interference with or obstruction of the investigation, due to conflict of interest. But that does t mean he can’t discredit it by using his pardon to draw public attention to other witch hunts, and other prosecutorial abuses.