And now we are being treated to this little bagatelle:
President-elect Donald Trump told reporters at a press conference on Monday at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, that he would consider pardoning New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted on federal corruption charges in September.
If I may be blunt, Mr. Soon-To-Be-POTUS: there’s way too much talk of “pardoning” going on for my liking.
Yeah, I know: FJB pardoned his son (of a gun-related conviction, no less), and so on and so forth. But that doesn’t mean that everyone — including you — should be throwing the stuff around like it’s confetti at a wedding.
Here’s my thought: save the pardons for the people who are really worthy of a pardon, such as the Jan 6 tribe, and leave the wheels of justice to grind assholes like Hizzoner into the same kind of dust that we ordinary folks would be facing. Now granted, these “corruption” charges were only brought by NYfC’s federal prosecutors after Adams give the Biden Administration the finger on border policy — in other words, said charges were of the same spiteful ilk that these shitheads brought to bear on Trump himself.
But why not just go after the federal prosecutors, who are surely as deserving of censure as anyone else? All this pardon stuff is like handing out snakebite anti-venom kits instead of just chopping off the poisonous snake’s bitey head with a shovel. (I know, decapitating government lawyers with a shovel may be problematic because of that Constitutional “krool & unyooshull” thing, but I think the point has been made.)
January 21, 2025 just cannot come quickly enough.
I agree. There is a summary of pardons doled out by past presidents and I believe Barry Sotoero lead the pack. Lover Boy Clinton pardoned domestic terrorists who set explosives in the US Capitol building.
Trump needs to wait until he’s in office. Maybe the NYFC mayor is a criminal and should be prosecuted.
Trump needs to stay focused on his core values.
IOW, don’t repeat his prior misperformance.
Git the shit done!
Adams will get pardoned before the J6 political prisoners. Wait and see. I have my doubts about whether he will pardoned the J6ers at all. He might tweet about it, though.
the wood and rope in front of city hall, not behind closed doors
public executions are a great deterence