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Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioter for gun offense and woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents​


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Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioter for gun offense and woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents

President Donald Trump has issued two pardons related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, including for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents who were investigating a tip that she may have been at the Capitol.
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“President Donald Trump has issued two pardons related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, including for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents who were investigating a tip that she may have been at the Capitol, officials said Saturday.

In a separate case, Trump issued a second pardon for a Jan. 6 defendant who had remained behind bars despite the sweeping grant of clemency for Capitol rioters because of a separate conviction for illegally possessing firearms.

… Suzanne Ellen Kaye was released last year after serving an 18-month sentence in her threats case. After FBI contacted her in 2021 about a tip indicating she may have been at the Capitol on Jan. 6, she posted a video on social media citing her Second Amendment right to carry a gun and she threatened to shoot agents if they came to her house. In court papers, prosecutors said her words “were part of the ubiquity of violent political rhetoric that causes serious harm to our communities.”

… In a separate case, Trump pardoned Daniel Edwin Wilson of Louisville, Kentucky, who was under investigation for his role in the riot when authorities found six guns and roughly 4,800 rounds of ammunition in his home. Because of prior felony convictions, it was illegal for him to possess firearms.…”
 
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Pardoned Capitol rioter tried to bribe child sex victim with promise of Jan. 6 payout, officials say

Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, faces multiple charges in Florida, including lewd/lascivious molestation, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.
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Pardoned Capitol rioter tried to bribe child sex victim with promise of Jan. 6 payout, officials say​

Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, faces multiple charges in Florida, including lewd/lascivious molestation, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.
 
finesse said:
We have the best Justice Department money can buy.
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I know that issuing pardons in exchange for bribes is a concept that is about 10 seconds younger than the concept of a pardon. And I acknowledge that the concept of paying a bribe for a pardon may have actually been the motivation for the creation of the concept of a pardon. But, I can't help but believe the behavior of Bill Clinton at the end of his second term of office just obiterated any remaining guardrails on the use of the power to pardon created by Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution. We reap what we sow.
 
05C40 said:
I know that issuing pardons in exchange for bribes is a concept that is about 10 seconds younger than the concept of a pardon. And I acknowledge that the concept of paying a bribe for a pardon may have actually been the motivation for the creation of the concept of a pardon. But, I can't help but believe the behavior of Bill Clinton at the end of his second term of office just obiterated any remaining guardrails on the use of the power to pardon created by Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution. We reap what we sow.
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I really think the bribery issue is isolated to Clinton and Trump. Just about every president has some controversial pardons but I can't think of any that look like a quid pro quo from biden, Obama or W.
 
Rock said:
I don’t know how we survive as a country at the rate things are going.
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+1. Trump 2.0 has created a true Putin-style kleptocracy right in the very heart of our federal government, and all of the usual suspects seem to be profiting very handsomely from it while they also grift their rube, ridiculously trusting MAGA base of every dollar they can. Add in that they are following Orban's playbook to the letter for taking over a country for "illiberal democracy" (authoritarianism by another name), and the sheer incompetence and buffoonery of Trump's minions in running (mismanaging) the entire federal government, and the future appears very dark. As you said, it's hard to see us getting to 2028 without at least one major disaster of some kind happening, whether economic, political, military, or something we can't yet imagine, and in either domestic or foreign events. And it could be deliberate - as in an order to the military to violently suppress protests, or just based on incompetence, like driving the economy into a depression. Or both. They've already done incalculable damage and they haven't even been in office for a full year yet, but it sure feels like four years have passed.
 
Rock said:
I don’t know how we survive as a country at the rate things are going.
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Dems are contributing.

Six lawmakers actively encouraging active duty soldiers to “disobey” illegal military orders. Where were they on D Day?
Routinely calling out ICE and NG as “Gestapo” and “fascists”
Supporting open borders
Supporting cashless bails resulting in needless murders and burnings of Americans
 
Ramrouser said:
Dems are contributing.

Six lawmakers actively encouraging active duty soldiers to “disobey” illegal military orders. Where were they on D Day?
Routinely calling out ICE and NG as “Gestapo” and “fascists”
Supporting open borders
Supporting cashless bails resulting in needless murders and burnings of Americans
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Hey asshole:

—Trump illegally called up the NG in DC, per a federal judge. The guard should’ve never been there.

—Hegseth committed war crimes by ordering the extrajudicial killing of foreign nationals who survived an initial illegal drone strike.

—Noem directly disobeyed a federal judge’s orders with regard to deporting folks to El Salvador.

Fuck yourself in the face, you despicable POS.

Happy thanksgiving.
 
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