Presidential Pardons

[Hymie]

This seems a strange arrangement to me - whereby the president can pardon anyone of their choosing.

If the Prime minister of the UK had such a power, I’m pretty sure the whole country would be up in arms at fellow crooks being pardoned, especially those engaged in criminal activity in support of the Prime minister. Do our American cousins have no shame in the political power of the president allowing abuse this way?

[youngmafbog]

See, Orange man bad - no matter what.

[ichkeria]

I'm afraid you are the one who doesn't know what they are talking about spicerack.
And as for ymb, for his it seems to be "see Orange man good, no matter what the facts" :-)

Trump has proposed something the Democrats actually support. While they gleefully revel in the embarrrassment Trump is causing his own party and no one stands to get anything until it's sorted.

[youngmafbog]

"And as for ymb, for his it seems to be "see Orange man good, no matter what the facts" :-)"

And there we have it - you dont read my posts.

He has done many good things but like everyone else he has got things wrong.

But Like I said, he is off, so move on and dont give him air time.

[jno]

he's not off. He's still on, so his actions are still worthy of discussion.

[tomus42]

The man's a pathological liar and cheat who's attempted to orchestrate a coup in the biggest democracy in world and we're supposed to acknowledge what a lovely man he is because he says people should get 2000 instead of 600. Lol.

It's the old, Mussolini made the trains run on time thing.

[ichkeria]

“ And there we have it - you dont read my posts. ”

That wasn’t in your post!

[Peter Pedant]

// If the Prime minister of the UK had such a power, I’m pretty sure the whole country would be up in arms at fellow crooks being pardoned,//

thing I like about AB is that they are never rational and seem to have no memory

// Haha well done PP - too true!// Naomi

think back to Clay Cross Councillors. a thousand ABers tweet "who dey den?".
Here is the Walter Mittyish story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Cross#Housing_Finance_Act_dispute
the way that this walter mitty remembers it is that the Labour politicians said in a general election

go ahead and disobey - we will indemnify you.

Lots and lots of people such as myself saying walter mittyish things like: a statutory body cannot commit a crime and so the liability will fall personally on the men doing it. Others puffed "obviously unlawful"

and er so it came to pass

and Labour won and tried to indemnify the councillors and the attorney general said he would have to resign on principle. Labour did and he did

I thought it was sam silkin

now read what really happened

so the answer ABers who have got down to here - is that we worked all this out in 1973

[fcc]

Maybe it's just pay back time for all the stick he got when he was elected.

[Peter Pedant]

// Maybe it's just pay back time for all the stick he got when he was elected.//

o god he is meant to be a president
not a sulky kid on a block playing hookey