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Country in Shock: Trump Promises to Pardon ‘Everyone Involved in Jan. 6th’ if Elected Again

Silly, stupid, Founding fathers.

They thought very seriously about putting some limits on the pardon power, somehow involving Congress, or a judicial panel, something beyond giving the power to one man because – what if it was abused?

The pardon power has been abused, before. Clinton got in a lot of heat for pardoning his brother, who had already served his sentence, and for pardoning Marc Rich – people thought perhaps Clinton had been paid off, at least with respect to his foundation.

But the controversial pardons used to always occur on a president’s last day in office, when all the news was about the new president and one was on their way out of town.

Silly, sad, founding fathers. They never saw Trump coming. (Actually, they very much did, and that’s why they always referred to this as an experiment in self-government, they always knew the wrong leader and wrong movement could bring it down). The Founding Fathers didn’t believe they needed to put any constraints on the pardon power, it would never be abused because – of course, if a president just pardoned a guy who could testify against him in a conspiracy, that president would of course be impeached.

That didn’t work. And as if Trump didn’t love the pardon power enough already (the only unlimited power he had), Trump is now already promising to pardon everyone involved in January 6th if he’s elected president again.

But this is the only platform Trump has. He wants to win power for absolute power’s sake, and thus some of those MAGAs share power with him, the power to own the libs by, well – to start, by pardoning everyone involved in January 6th, whether one was guilty or not.

Twitter is about as angry as I’ve ever seen it:

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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