Pardon Trump from all charges if he just leaves??

Frank Apisa wrote:

farmerman wrote:

Good idea.

He deserves prison time for what he has done to our Republic. Actually, he deserves eternity in Hell for what he has done to our Republic.

But prosecuting presidents after they leave office does have a Banana Republic feel to it...and the justice of the act might be more harmful than simply getting rid of the guy.

That's been weighing on my mind as well. Listening to Michael Flynn lead chants of lock her up was distressing. I'm in a quandary about what to do with Trump, he certainly deserves to be prosecuted for his outrageous betrayal of the office. But then what? The idea of an American president sent to prison is deeply unsettling for me...are we really going to start putting people in prison instead of voting them out of office? Then I remember his treason sized crimes and outrageous abuses the likes of which this country has never seen. Frankly, I wish he would just go away but that's not going to happen. The citizens of this country better take a long hard look at ourselves and figure out how it came to this. We placed a self-promoting fabulist who glories in chaos in the Oval Office...actually more likely plopped on a bed watching TV trying to see how many times he is spoken about in glowing terms.

Now we are rudderless in the middle of a Pandemic. We all gasped when the death toll crept toward 70,000 but now that it is 172,000 I think we are just numb. Trump finds this all very boring...it's not what he likes to do..he likes to brag about the Stockmarket and what a financial wizard he is. It's malevolent, and shame on everyone who allowed this clown into the peoples house.

All you have to do is tell him he’s been made ruler of the galaxy and he’ll happily climb into a rocket and be blasted off into space.

We’re going to have to start doing **** like this so our first generation of interstellar astronauts have some Star Trek type weirdness to encounter.

hi clamity

I think he'd buy it. I suggest we float this by him and if he agrees, that will make the entire election thingy a mere formality. Trump wants SO MUCH OUT TO BE. He looks rehearsed in his casualness , and just flat run-over. Even his speeches are waay more tepid and lifeless.

I believe Biden should pardon Trump. Why not? Close this awful chapter and move on.

In 10 years, both Biden and Trump will be dead. There is no downside.

Well, all the charges would take effect only AFTER he leaves office so this pardon would be unrecognized.

Many examples of Trump using his power as president to enrich himself and family members is just one reason why the iron bars will be closing behind him.
Trying to get the UK to move large golfing events to courses that he own by having our ambassador lobbing the UK government on his behalf to do so.
That crime alone should be good for a few years.

He will be tried because they have enoough evidence NOW to install a grand Jury in NY southern District.

BRINGING CHARGES will be done in sevral bank fraud and mail fraud cases, Grand Larceny, and in the Presiential ranking he has the Deutsche Bank thingy to worry about, as well as the entire realm of emoluments .

If Trump believes himself innocent, then why would he accept a pardon?

Yeah -- PROVEN WRONG.

If Nixon had not been pardoned while his functionaries were prosecuted Trump may not have been quite so brazenly corrupt.

The pardoning Of Nixon was an assault on democracy which enabled Trump.

I think the degree of corruption in this administration is so widespread and so serious that to ignore it would be a bigger blow to the country than prosecuting it. I don't think saying "if you just go quietly like you're supposed to, we will ignore all that conspiracy against the US, personal enrichment, civil rights violations, etc. stuff."