There's nothing to stop a president or would be president from encouraging followers to commit all sorts of federal crimes with the promise that they'll be pardoned.https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1487619765569003521 …
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The presidential power has been used in the past to help cover up crimes by a president's cronies and supporters (notably by the two Bushes) but Trump is really taking up to a new level.
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The Senate had the power to remove Trump from office and also to bar him from running again. The failure to do so opens up this possibility.https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1487619765569003521 …
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Well according to our interviews with Trump-supporting retirees in Ohio diners, that's just part of the regular give and take of politics
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That's so cynical Jeet!
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Nothing, and it means we’re at the end point of democracy
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State laws
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In some states perhaps.
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State laws over which the President has no pardon power?
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norms lmao
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