Even the best consequentialist defenses of the Trump record have to concede that his pardons have been awful. The best you can argue is that other stuff he's done is more important.
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Marc rich
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Kind of surprised he hasn't made it into a yearly " Presidential Special Event" yet.
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And Republicans pretend to believe that he's a corruption crusader.
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The president has similar control over nuclear weapons actually, and various presidents made strange andor controversial pardons.
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"Misused". Like Clinton? He sold pardons. Like Obama? He "pardoned" 5 taliban generals in exchange for bergdahl. Heck, W Bush wouldn't even pardon scooter. But Trump "misused". Not very smart observation in context.
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Misused is an interesting word to use. Surely you can’t misuse a power whose limits are confined solely to one’s own discretion. Unrepublicly is the word I’d use (if it existed). Or maybe unprincipled or untraditionally or abusively?
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lol, abusively but don't say misuse. split some more hairs dude.
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It's also interesting and telling that his defenders regularly argue that this power *cannot* be misused by definition, which only compounds the corrupt intent of it all.
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The power is pretty absolute, but that does not mean it is above criticism for being used unwisely, unfairly, or on undeserving recipients. They're confusing its legal limits with its prudence.
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