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What makes Trump's approach stand out is not the quantity but the quality. Clinton was criticized for issuing a flurry of 170 pardons in his final days, but as NYT points out, the diff is that he still relied on the Justice Dept as primary filter. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons.html …pic.twitter.com/mWrFASpIJi
I'd like to see a comparison that has a breakdown of *types* of pardon: 1. Clemency appeals via due process with no grift 2. Grift market based on $ and lobbying by wealthy 3. POTUS-initiated pardons based on personal selfless interest 4. Strategic political favors
I wouldn't actually expect Trump to top the charts on any of the 4 categories, but I'd expect 2 and 4 to dominate. He's too uninterested in others unless he is in the equation himself. The NYT article is really bad. Like journalistic malpractice bad.
It seemed to suggest that somehow Trump was the worst offender on this front, and besides the one qualified Clinton comparison, did not contextualize his clemency record against modern presidents. I googled and found the Pew article after smelling a fish reading the NYT one.
Telling this story honestly but with nuance still would still tell a bad-enough portrait of Trump as a more self-dealing user of the clemency power than most. But they wrote it instead in a weirdly unnecessary dishonest way.
There's another category important to keep in mind. It often looks like #4, or sometimes #2. Those are the real interesting ones.https://twitter.com/kerry62189/status/1341663478730416128?s=20 …
History of the pardon power is very interesting. I consider the dynamic similar to SCOTUS having discretion over what cases it will hear. There are some cases that the country cannot afford to decide either way. Pardons are a way to dodge such a decision.Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
