2016 Postmortem

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts) Mon Oct 10, 2016, 10:06 PM Oct 2016

Obama could just make a blanket pardon of Hillary if Trump won

As Ford did for Nixon ("all crimes that may have been committed&quot .

It would suck, but it would be Trump's handpicked lackey prosecutor who would decide what constitutes a crime, and that would mean overturning the conclusion of a year-long FBI investigation.

In any case, Obama on January 19 could just give Trump a big middle finger by pardoning Hillary for everything she would be about to be accused of doing by Trump's kangaroo prosecutor.

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Obama could just make a blanket pardon of Hillary if Trump won (Original Post) bluestateguy Oct 2016 OP

Trump isn't going to win C_U_L8R Oct 2016 #1

Trump would face impeachment itsrobert Oct 2016 #2

Trump is not going to win. Agnosticsherbet Oct 2016 #3

In that scary but unlikely event, I fully agree. pnwmom Oct 2016 #4

fortunately there is no reason for him to have to do such a thing book_worm Oct 2016 #5

+1 rusty quoin Oct 2016 #10

For what? She hasn't done anything wrong. There is nothing to "pardon" her for. emulatorloo Oct 2016 #6

Yes, but a blanket pardon would prevent Congress TexasBushwhacker Oct 2016 #8

THERE ARE NO PAST ISSUES. SHE'S BEEN INVESTIGATED TO HELL BY THESE BULLSHIT REPUBLICANS emulatorloo Oct 2016 #9

Pardon for what? MyNameIsKhan Oct 2016 #7

Yea I think maybe you can't give a pardon unless someone has been convicted of a Maraya1969 Oct 2016 #11

C_U_L8R

(45,021 posts)

1. Trump isn't going to win

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 10:07 PM

Oct 2016

And he should be more concerned that no one
is ever going to pardon his corrupt ass.

itsrobert

(14,157 posts)

2. Trump would face impeachment

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 10:13 PM

Oct 2016

That would be abuse of power.

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

3. Trump is not going to win.

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 10:35 PM

Oct 2016

pnwmom

(108,995 posts)

4. In that scary but unlikely event, I fully agree.

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 10:37 PM

Oct 2016

And he should issue blanket pardons for everyone in the State Department, so the Republicans don't attack all of them as a proxy for Hillary.

book_worm

(15,951 posts)

5. fortunately there is no reason for him to have to do such a thing

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 10:43 PM

Oct 2016

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)

10. +1

Reply to book_worm (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 11, 2016, 12:09 AM

Oct 2016

emulatorloo

(44,186 posts)

6. For what? She hasn't done anything wrong. There is nothing to "pardon" her for.

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 10:56 PM

Oct 2016

This is just cuckoo banana stuff from Bannon aka breitbart.com. Red meat for Hillary haters.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,215 posts)

8. Yes, but a blanket pardon would prevent Congress

Reply to emulatorloo (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 11:41 PM

Oct 2016

from impeaching her over PAST issues. They really need to move on.

emulatorloo

(44,186 posts)

9. THERE ARE NO PAST ISSUES. SHE'S BEEN INVESTIGATED TO HELL BY THESE BULLSHIT REPUBLICANS

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Reply #8)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 11:45 PM

Oct 2016

AND THEY NEVER FIND SHE HAS DONE ANYTHING WRONG.

Sorry for yelling but I do not appreciate your insinuation that HRC has done bad things in the past.

She hasn't.

MyNameIsKhan

(2,205 posts)

7. Pardon for what?

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 10:59 PM

Oct 2016

For emails that are already recorded on state dept systems?

Really I find this email scandal humorous...

When you get or send email to someone, it is saved on email server from sender or receiver, how can she delete state dept emails?

She can only delete persona emails ...

Maraya1969

(22,501 posts)

11. Yea I think maybe you can't give a pardon unless someone has been convicted of a

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Sat Oct 29, 2016, 11:13 AM

Oct 2016

crime. Ford was pardoning Nixon on the way out of the presidency.

Either way the Democratic party needs to be thinking proactively about how they are going to stop these punks

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