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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 09:53 AM Jun 2018

Your Sunday morning Constitutional Crisis in America....sad!

Why are we even fucking having this disgusting conversation??

ONE man in America is above the law, and one office only!? Can you guess who that is, kiddies?

Defend that! Bueller? Bueller?

Pardoning yourself for ANY crime is like jerking off in public and then spraying the jizz over the assembled crowd, then flinging your shot at the summoned cops...who will let then you go with wink and a smile...ah, that Pardon Boy again! What ya gonna do?!

Or like doing a mass murder and then going for a Big Mac and 🍟 with impunity.

Not even Hitler had that power, or Big Macs for that matter.

But in America....WTF??

Why not have a debate now over whether the aesrth is round or flat? Hey, if the President can pardon itself, why not go all the way to the Planet of the Apes?

p.s. refusing a lawful summons in a criminal investigation IS pardoning yourself and is the definition of shitting on the rule of law...remember that quaint notion?

So go fuck yourself Trump, you can pardon yourself later.

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Your Sunday morning Constitutional Crisis in America....sad! (Original Post) Fred Sanders Jun 2018 OP
It is ridiculous manor321 Jun 2018 #1
Yes. Not to mention the part about....Pardons for Offences, except... "in cases of himself", why, it Fred Sanders Jun 2018 #2
 

manor321

(3,344 posts)
1. It is ridiculous
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 09:59 AM
Jun 2018

Even directly in the Constitition it says:

...and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.


Clearly the pardon power is limited so the President can't protect himself.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. Yes. Not to mention the part about....Pardons for Offences, except... "in cases of himself", why, it
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 10:08 AM
Jun 2018

has mysteriously vanished!

Call Gulliani! Find it pronto, Goulman, you can do it. Maybe CNN has it!?

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