Law and Order President Said He Will Pardon Underlings Who Break the Law for Him
Despite a government shutdown, a national emergency declaration, and over four years of bluster from President Trump, construction has yet to begin on a wall along the southern border.
The president is not happy, especially with the 2020 election is looming. According to a new report from the Washington Post, Trump has essentially instructed his aides to use whatever means necessary to get up a few hundred miles of wall so he’ll have something concrete, perhaps literally, to offer supporters as proof that he’s made good on his signature 2016 campaign promise.
If those means include breaking federal law, so be it. As the Post writes: “[Trump] has also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly, those officials said.”
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When asked for comment, a White House official told the Post the president is joking when he “makes such statements about pardons.”
Trump is barely even pretending his obsession with constructing portions of a wall as soon as possible is anything more than a political move ahead of the election. The Post notes that the president has admitted to lawmakers that a wall is not going to stop undocumented immigrants, but that he needs one because he promised it to his supporters. The election is the deadline, naturally, and during a conference call last week Customs and Border Protection officials told Army Corps engineers that a chunk of the wall has to go up before next November, quality be damned.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pardon-border-wall-construction-877562/
Lock him up!!
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