Politico Top Story: Conservative calls grow for Trump to pardon anyone and everyone Mueller targets

[NewsCenter28]

MoveOn needs to plan mass protests for this as well:

'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,”

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

Speechless!

[Siwsan]

1. There are no shortcuts to justice. Pardoning them is an explicit admission that they are guilty.

If they weren't, it would be better for them to let the system play out.

[NewsCenter28]

2. No it's not

He will just tell the base, who will eagerly lap it up, that Mueller is a big ole mean deep state bully and he is just standing up for America and apple pie!

[Siwsan]

8. He can tell them what he likes. That doesn't alter reality.

I have no intention of enabling.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. The right won't see it that way they'll see it as finally that scam is over

[Siwsan]

9. Then it is up to those of us who live a reality based life to shout the truth

Shout it loud, and continuously.

[Fullduplexxx]

11. Just like we're doing now huh?

[Siwsan]

12. I can only speak for myself and hope others will push the truth

Hopefully more will speak up than will shrug their shoulders and stay silent.

[malaise]

18. +1,000

[LanternWaste]

17. What exactly does the right's inaccurate perception have to do with justice?

What exactly does the right's inaccurate perception have to do with justice and the justice system, "huh"?

[Raster]

3. Once again POLITICO lives up to it's moniker: "Tiger Beat on the Potomac"...

...Thank you, Charles Pierce!

[hedda_foil]

16. Do you think the reporting is untrue?

Or maybe that it favors Republicans?

Or are you just dismissing the report as nonsense?

[Raster]

20. At times, I do think POLITICO favors Republicans...

...I also believe that, like it's "namesake," POLITICO prefers to seeks to elevate the trivial and accentuate the hyperbolic in order to sell add space.

As for this issue, I think the "reporting" is probably good... no small leap to imagine that friends and supporters of the Orange Anus* would urge him to use any trick up his sleeve to alleviate the prosecutorial damage.

[hedda_foil]

23. Thank you for clarifying. I'm in near complete agreement with you.

[LanternWaste]

19. Is it more fun to live up to a consistent irrelevance or alleged monikers?

Is it more fun to live up to a consistent irrelevance or alleged monikers?

Thank you!

[Raster]

21. good question

[Fullduplexxx]

5. That's where this was always headed as soon as it gets to Trump he'll just start pardoning everybody

[Blue_true]

6. We need to make an issue of that for November.

If they think that people can committ treason and not be held to account, then we have no country.

[Ilsa]

7. Agreeing to a pardon is accepting guilt, is it not?

Wouldn't the accused prefer their day in court before agreeing to accept guilt and a pardon?

[Greybnk48]

22. Exactly! n/t

[NCTraveler]

10. They aren't being targeted.

An investigation is turning over rocks and some of them seem to be under those rocks.

[NewsCenter28]

13. Sometimes, I feel like a Debby Downer

It's just every time, like Friday, that I finally feel some hope about Trump, something like this story pops up and makes me feel hopeless. My thought process is like this: Trump will just pardon everyone, including himself; the media will be outraged for a day until he gives a speech that makes them like him again (same situation as Charlottesville followed by Harvey, say); the base will love him standing up to Mueller; Dems and Independents stay energized to vote in November but Putin just flips their votes over to the Trump/Ryan Cabal anyway and voter suppression is also in full force.

If I knew for a fact that November would be a free and fair election, I wouldn't be so disturbed by the pardons and would tell Trump to bring it on really, as it would be his downfall.

I am close to someone who feels that Trump's downfall can only be accomplished through the legal system; that the political system is too compromised. I hope they are wrong, especially in light of today's Politico story.

[Vinca]

14. If worse comes to worse there is always the NY state AG. Whatever charges he might bring re

money laundering, etc., cannot be pardoned by the POTUS. I doubt Schneiderman would sit idly by if Trump started pardoning everyone charged by Mueller.

[NCTraveler]

15. You and I are in a different place.

I would love it if he pardoned them all.