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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, why did Trump withhold pardons for both Eastman and Giuliani?
It would be a different ball game today, if he had. Both men are now in a position to turn evidence against Trump, if they can trade their own culpability for testimony that they all knew, including Trump, that they were blowing smoke up everyone's ass
iemanja
(53,035 posts)They are disturbingly loyal to a man who would turn on them in a heartbeat.
leftieNanner
(15,124 posts)SOP for him.
Retrograde
(10,137 posts)JohnSJ
(92,219 posts)KPN
(15,646 posts)an official record of each and every pardon? Its an interesting thought for sure. However, I think its more likely he w/h because granting could be interpreted as knowledge that crimes were committed. Hes out for himself ahead of every other consideration always.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)Your point makes total sense. If he sold pardons like popcorn, he'd be the only prosecutable person in the crime crew.
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)and they didn't have sufficient cash to buy one from him.
rsdsharp
(9,186 posts)and if they were pardoned, they couldnt plead the 5th,
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Suckers
Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)TlalocW
(15,384 posts)He's too short-sighted to see any consequences from doing that.
TlalocW
Hassler
(3,379 posts)I do wonder that now Eastman appears to be up shit creek (if the DOJ goes after him), whether he will turn on Trump in exchange for a lesser charge.
RockRaven
(14,972 posts)Strategy has no place in the decision making when a narcissist is lashing out.
Ocelot II
(115,733 posts)The attempt was on 1/6, and TFG had another two weeks to do it, plenty of time to think about it, but why would he reward the failed attempt? He's always happy to let someone else take the fall for him.
Nevilledog
(51,121 posts)SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)"The lawyers, they told me there was a law a long big beautiful law from many years ago, i think it was a Jefferson law or Washington but the lawyers told me it was....." It was Eastman and Giuliani, the lawyers who told me. I relied on the lawyers."
We will hear this the moment the shoe drops on this traitor, pos.
TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)Turbineguy
(37,342 posts)With all the people involved, he still couldn't pull it off.
zuul
(14,627 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,229 posts)I'm not still President?
No Pardon for you!