In the wake of his 17-year jail sentence, Joseph Bigg said: “Oh, I know he’ll pardon. I believe that with all my heart.”
Regardless of political leanings, if one of the steps in your master plan is “receive pardon from glorious leader once they return to power”, you might want to rethink what you’re about to do.
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Good news then, he’s got 17 years to think about it
People in the freaken gulags were waiting for Stalin to pardon them. No one, including myself, wants to accept the existence they almost certainly have and will have hope for saviour. Even if it is the person who put them there.
HEY MEDIA!
Stop. Giving. These. Fuckwits. Attention!
On the contrary, make an example of what happens to insurrectionists.
Oh, I completely agree on that point. But let them fade into the dark where cockroaches belong and stop giving them free advertising for their gofundme accounts!
as delusional as ever
Trump May pardon him, despite all his pretending he doesn’t know what a proud boy is.
‘trump will pardon him with his mind. from his own prison cell’
good luck with that.
I’d pay good money to see his face the moment he realizes that Trump isn’t going to help him
Sorry, that isn’t a pay to win feature. You’ll have to wait the 16 years 11 months and 25 days for him to realize it.
Where’s the remind me bot when you need it…
but he believes it with all his heart… all teaspoon and a half of it…
A lot of prisons have video phones now.
You could probally actually call him if you want to pay $10/min or whatever it is.
As tempting as that sounds, Talking to insurrectionists for fun is probably a good way to get put on a list.
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Dollars to donuts Trump doesn’t even know this dude exists.
irrelevant since he cant pardon anyone while he himself is in prison and disqualified from holding any office
The constitutional qualifications for being president are being a natural-born U.S. citizen, a resident for at least 14 years and over the age of 35. A person can be disqualified by conviction in a Senate impeachment trial, but a criminal conviction does not affect eligibility.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/17/can-convicted-felon-run-for-president/
He can become president again even if he’s in prison. And then he can pardon anyone including himself.
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Or would care to.
He thought Trump was gonna pay their lawyers as well.
Not the sharpest tool in the shed this one.
And their finger and thumb in the shape of an L on their forehead.
Dude, he’s already forgotten about you, if he ever knew who you were in the first place. He most certainly doesn’t care if you rot in jail or not. In fact, he’d probably get off on it if he knew.
If someone told Trump about this guy 4 years from now, he’d be bragging about how there were dudes doing long jailtime for him, because that’s how great he is. Getting Biggs out of prison would mean less bragging rights. He literally has an incentive to keep him in there.
As an outsider, the whole “presidential pardon” system is absolute stupid and ready for abuse.
We have it here as well but it isn’t a free for all. The President receives a list of proposed pardons that have to be vetted one by one by a legal team. Certain offenses are not eligible and only sentences below a given number of years may be pardoned.
It’s not like the man can hand out pardons on a whim.
How does it work in the US?
How does it work in the US?
Generally, the pardon power is meant to be a check on the legislative and judicial branch, and thus it is designed to be this powerful.
Obama used his pardon power to free individuals who were nonviolent drug offenders who got sentenced to years often for simple possession. This doesn’t mean that he didn’t use a slew of lawyers to find these cases. He very much did. But he could, literally, go through a roster of inmates and just pick random people to pardon.
Trump, if reelected, will likely pardon himself and it will need to go through the courts to see if that’s even feasible. Given the current nature of our highest court, it likely will be found constitutional.
Given the current nature of our highest court, it likely will be found constitutional.
Pretty much. From the strict text reading there is nothing about it.
and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Justice Thompson will get a new boat from a GOP aligned group so at least so it isn’t all bad. Sure it is travesty of the justice and breaks the entire concept of no one being above or below the law but when has that stopped the Robert’s court before?
Nobody knows, including the president. Trump thought he could pardon himself. There aren’t any restrictions other than it must be a crime with federal jurisdiction, the only jurisdiction over which the president has direct power. He can even pardon people in advance.
It is very open for abuse but historically hasn’t been abused that much. Seems like the states are moving towards making it less powerful.
The US seems to work on “I pinky swear not to abuse this” and then is shocked when that turns out poorly.
sometimes when these systems are designed, the designers, simply didnt contemplate the crazy shit people will try that are within the systems legal bounds. for example no-one would have ever thought a prime minister would secretly swear himself into multiple minister portfolios even behind his own cabinets back, but thats exactly what the former PM of australia did (and now calls into question the things he signed off on in secret at the time).
You need a balance. You can’t have a government that can’t respond/change and you can’t have a government where whomever won the last election is now dictator whose whim is law.
A lot of this stuff was ripe for abuse since the beginning but it was only rarely abused so everyone just left it. Kinda how Vietnam war wasnt declared but went on for like a decade. The potential for that abuse of power was there since the founding days but wasn’t abused until much later.
As I said the states seem like they are moving away from it being an unchecked power so maybe one day there will be a constitutional amendment.
Trump could have pardoned him on January 7th.
Trump doesn’t give a shit about them.
Also, Trump is about to get removed from the ballot in several states.
“Also, Trump is about to get removed from the ballot in several states.”
I hope you’re correct.
I wouldn’t count on the 14th argument. There’s going to be so many lawsuits flying around they’re going to have to put a jetway at the Supreme Court, and Alito, Kavanaugh, Thomas, and whatsherface will tie themselves in knots to force that shitstain back on us.
Look at this guy, thinks he’s better than the Tiger King.
Just like Joe Exotic !
Came here to say “have your limo waiting!”
If there weren’t a million reasons to not vote for Trump already, keeping this POS behind bars is just one more to add to the pile.
Lol trump only cares about himself this dudes in for a wild ride. Don’t drop the soap my man.
I’m guessing, because he’s clearly a moron, that he doesn’t realize that former presidents don’t have pardoning power.
I think he thinks Trump is still president.
Then why do his people keep blaming Biden for things? If Trump is president then he’s responsible for checks notes [current gas prices], for example.
Depends how brain damaged you assume this guy is, but he either thinks trump will win in 24 or that trump is secretly the actual for real president. Probably the former but I wouldn’t bet on it.
desperation i think
Yeah, you served your purpose and you failed… enjoy prison.
Thoughts and prayers
