Opinion piece in Newsweek advocates Pres. Biden "unconditionally pardoning" Trump to avoid violence

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/08/newsweek-opinion-piece-advocates.html

This is wrong on multiple levels.

Creel suggests that President Biden should immediately offer Trump an unconditional pardon. But here's how he worded that statement in the piece:

"To head off the disaster of being criminally prosecuted by his political opponent, President Joe Biden should offer Trump an unconditional pardon immediately--and announce that he will not seek re-election,"

Are professors of business law not required to pass English, or be able to write coherently? Is he saying that Biden runs the risk of being criminally prosecuted by his political opponent, or is that a reference to Trump? And if that's the case, President Biden isn't going to prosecute his political opponent, the justice department will be doing that and it's a judicial matter, not an executive branch prosecution. Or, is he suggesting that Trump will win re-election, and then turn around and criminally prosecute Biden? I'll just tell you, there's no chance of that happening under any circumstance.

First of all, it would not be a "disaster" for Trump to be criminally prosecuted by the Justice Department. It would be justice under the rule of law. If he committed crimes, and I'm pretty certain that he did, then he should be criminally prosecuted, regardless of who is in the White House, because both the Justice Department and the President represent the people, and we are the ones against whom the crimes were committed. Why would President Biden use the power of the pardon to bypass the rule of law? And I'll answer that question, too. He wouldn't. Not ever.

[Ocelot II]

1. Yeah, no. Fuck that all day.

[Meadowoak]

2. fuck that.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Stupid fucking idea

A pardon would only encourage the obese POS.

[benfranklin1776]

18. Indeed, it's the absolute worst!

As the world learned the hard way in the 1930s, appeasement never stops fascists from destroying countries and human life.🤬
Obviously this twit who wrote this Newsweek twaddle never studied history, or is willfully obtuse for reasons known only to him.

[Girard442]

4. Posthumously.

[dflprincess]

5. A pardon would be a disaster

All it would do is teach the two year olds who make up the Republican party that they can always get their way if they get the cult to threaten violence.

[hibbing]

6. Yeah, let them get away more crimes n/t

[LastDemocratInSC]

7. Consider the source.

Newsweek is just a shadow of its former self.

[LakeArenal]

8. Doing that might make pacifists like me to get punchy.

[Turbineguy]

9. Bad idea.

Sure, NJ's will make threats on the Internet, but that's it. Trump didn't help those arrested since J6.

[Vogon_Glory]

10. No pardon for the Donald

His behavior should be discouraged. I’m already worried that the next Republican in the White House(God have mercy on us and deliver our country from such a fate!) would not only go as far as Donnie went but further.

The survival of the US as a free country continues to hang by fraying threads.

[NNadir]

11. As in "surrender to terrorists?"

[Hugh_Lebowski]

12. That's a really, really hard NO, and a very emphatic 'fuck that shit' from me

That would be TEXTBOOK 'giving in to the terrorists'.

Nah, Newsweek dude.

You're a fucking idiot, quite frankly.

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. Why not post a Breitbart opinion piece too?

Newsweek is now a Right Wing propaganda rag.

They gave John Eastman space to write a column in fall 2020 saying VP Harris wasn’t eligible to be VP because her parents were foreign born.

Newsweek should be ignored- don’t understand why it was posted (again) on DU.

[PortTack]

14. Exactly!

[lees1975]

17. I think Democrats need to see exactly what's being pushed by the far right and where.

We will need to motivate and involve a record number of voters for our candidates to have the legislative strength necessary to save the democracy and crush this Trumpie plague. Look at the responses here. People got fired up. Conceivably, people might get angry enough to fire back some emails to the editor.

I don't ignore anything on the right, and that includes Breitbart, Newsmax, USA Radio and even Faux. I fire back.

[Ford_Prefect]

15. Not now. Not ever. No F***ing way.

Trump is going down for so many things it is impossible for a federal pardon to cover all of them. Georgia and New York are about to indict him. The possibility of a pardon for federal crimes would require a list of those to which TLG must admit his guilt. He will never admit to being in the wrong.

Whatever fantasy world his followers live in, which the MSM deliriously amplifies at every turn, it has no legal basis and no future. The more you humor and thus enable a bully the more you encourage his excesses and his violence.

The proof of the strength and validity of our justice system is that it is capable of prosecuting TLG, and all of his minions.

We saw that when Nixon was pardoned many people continued to believe he was innocent. They never had to face the truth of his perfidy, nor acknowledge the collusion of what we now call Dark Money interests.

[SharonClark]

16. I'm with you lees1975.

[turbinetree]

19. The country went through that in 1974 and now look where we are.....we have a jerk that has a

charge on the warrant against the Espionage Act......and to top it all off he is a self serving jerk.....and Newsweek thinks that he should get a pardon.....does Newsweek understand that he wants to censor them if he get back into power.....JFC.....

[Skittles]

20. hell no, FUCK NO

IS TRUMP ABOVE THE LAW OR ISN'T HE

[Heather MC]

21. Did Eric trump write this trying to get his daddy to say he loves him?

This sounds desperate

[Rebl2]

22. No way

in h…

[BigDemVoter]

23. Ummm no. . . How about throwing the book at P*$$Y Grabber

and jailing anybody who dares to foment violence?

[Aristus]

24. Newsweek has become the Volkischer Beobachter.

[Grins]

25. It's Newsweek.

Taken over by the Reich-wing loons years ago.