GOP weaponizing pardoning powers!

Golly Frank, that's unheard of!

Obama used clemency power more often than any president since Truman

Well, it might depend on why clemency and pardons were granted. I don't deify Obama by any means, but did he ever grant clemency because someone was a personal friend or refused to testify against him. As usual, I think we should look beyond just the numbers.

Golly Frank, that's unheard of!

Trump has already shown that he is willing to pardon people who refuse to testify truthfully against him...and people who are political allies.

Now Missouri Governor Mike Parson is hinting that if the gun pointing couple from St. Louis are indicted, he will pardon them.

Do you approve of the pardons/clemency that Trump has approved?

Would you approve of a pardon to a couple brandishing automatic weapons at people in a protest march?

Fail.
Yes, before Trump it was unheard of for any president to pardon someone who knew enough to put him in jail.

@Frank Apisa,
Golly Frank, that's unheard of!

Obama used clemency power more often than any president since Truman

Do you approve of the pardons/clemency that Trump has approved? Would you approve of a pardon to a couple brandishing automatic weapons at people in a protest march?

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@Frank Apisa,
Golly Frank, that's unheard of!

Obama used clemency power more often than any president since Truman

Didn't Clinton spend his entire last days in office pardoning people for cash?

Dr Sliptinschit wrote:

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@Frank Apisa,
Golly Frank, that's unheard of!

Obama used clemency power more often than any president since Truman

Didn't Clinton spend his entire last days in office pardoning people for cash?

Pretty much.

McGentrix wrote:

Dr Sliptinschit wrote:

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@Frank Apisa,
Golly Frank, that's unheard of!

Obama used clemency power more often than any president since Truman

Didn't Clinton spend his entire last days in office pardoning people for cash?

Pretty much.

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That's not true, but I understand why that appeals to you.

There’s been much wailing and gnashing of teeth against the audacity and pointed politics of Trump’s pardon process.

Sorry, but the prize for pardon whoppers still goes to one President William Jefferson Clinton, who, in late 2000 and early 2001 pardoned Dan Rostenkowski, a former congressman who spent 15 months in federal prison on mail fraud charges; Mel Reynolds, former congressman convicted of federal bank fraud charges; and Susan McDougal, his former business partner, who was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating Clinton’s Whitewater real estate investment.

The swamp was deep in those days. And fragrant.

He also pardoned his brother, Roger Clinton Jr., who served a year in federal prison for cocaine possession. Central Intelligence Agency Director John Deutch got a pardon, after agreeing to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for mishandling government secrets. Clinton pardoned him in his last day in office, two days before the Justice Department could file the case against Deutch.

And then there was Marc Rich and Pincus Green — business partners who were indicted by the U.S. Attorney on charges of tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran in 1983 and who fled the country that year. Clinton pardoned them in 2001 after Rich’s ex-wife, Denise Rich, made large donations to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Foundation.