Right-wingers call on Trump to just pardon everybody indicted by Mueller

[DetlefK]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/trump-russia-pardons-mueller-flynn-417094

“I think he should be pardoning anybody who’s been indicted and make it clear that anybody else who gets indicted would be pardoned immediately,” said Frederick Fleitz, a former CIA analyst and senior vice president at the conservative Center for Security Policy.

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“It’s kind of cruel what’s going on right now and the president should put these defendants out of their misery,” said Larry Klayman, a conservative legal activist. “I think he should pardon everybody — and pardon himself.”

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“Doling out presidential pardons to try to cover up any collusion or obstruction of justice is unacceptable and will be met with furious resistance across the country,” Patty Murray, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said during a floor speech earlier this month.

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Trump’s lawyers and aides insist it’s premature to discuss even the possibility of pardons. “There have been no pardon discussions at the White House,” Ty Cobb, the White House attorney who leads the president’s official response to the Russia investigation, told POLITICO on Friday just hours before Mueller’s latest indictment was released.

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Even some conservatives who support pardons in principle are wary of the severe political backlash they are certain to trigger. Mike Cernovich, a prominent alt-right activist, said he believes the moment for pardons has passed and that Trump needs to wait until after the November mid-term elections.

“If the Democrats take over, pardon everyone,” Cernovich said. “They’re coming for you anyway. They have their nuke with impeachment. You have your nuke with pardons. And then settle in for an interesting two years.”



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Yeah...

1. "Settle in for an interesting two years"

2. You don't just get a presidential pardon. You have to formally accept it. And accepting a pardon counts legally as an admission of guilt.

[oberliner]

1. Mike Cernovich is a prominent right-wing activist?

[DetlefK]

2. He's an Alt-Right troll (and rape-apologist) trying to become a political commentator.

Somebody on Youtube made a super-cut of Mike Cernovich lamenting how nobody takes him seriously.

[RKP5637]

3. Hmmmm some of these folks sound like RW Russian operatives IMO. n/t

[Iliyah]

4. Okie dokie

problem solved.

[beachbum bob]

5. If trump does this, Nov 2018 will be a complete annihilation of republicans everywhere with

another disaster for them in 2020.

so I say I hope trump follows "their" advice.....americans don't like courruption and only corrupt people obstruct justice.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Fleitz From The Center For Security Policy?

Ex-CIA? I though the CIA was the deep state who is after the resident. Now, we CAN trust the CIA again?

Which is it, R's?

[Zorro]

7. Trump is probably looking in to pardoning the indicted Russians

Wouldn't surprise me.

[underpants]

8. Well if Klayman and Cernovich are on board...

Get off the boat

[elehhhhna]

9. The acceptance would be an admission of guilt and every one loses their clearance BOOM

Then let Schneidrman start indicting these asshats on state charges in NY