Pardon him, for what purpose? So Trump can say, “Look, everyone! Biden pardoned me, so clearly I did nothing wrong! Time to do it all again, and then some!”???
A pardon is not an exoneration. If anything it says in spite of this pardon the pardoned person was a criminal. Especially if/when Jack Smith releases his damning report on Trump's crimes.
Do you seriously think MAGA is going to make that distinction? No matter how many times we explain things to them, they take Trump at his word. If he gets pardoned, he is going to shout from the rooftops that he never did anything wrong to begin with, it was all a political hit job, and he got pardoned because he’s innocent. And MAGA is going to lap it up. Pardoning him gets us nothing.
He will do that anyway. What MAGA thinks doesn’t matter… it is what the rest of the world sees. And not pardoning gets us nothing except to allow Trump to claim he has vindicated himself and the unjustly convicted patriots.
He himself will never need a pardon (not even a self-pardon) because the Federal Courts have never convicted him and will never convict him. So Biden giving him a pardon (along with the release of Jack Smith’s damning reports) makes it clear Trump was guilty and needed to be pardoned
Pardon him, for what purpose? So Trump can say, “Look, everyone! Biden pardoned me, so clearly I did nothing wrong! Time to do it all again, and then some!”???
A pardon is not an exoneration. If anything it says in spite of this pardon the pardoned person was a criminal. Especially if/when Jack Smith releases his damning report on Trump's crimes.
Do you seriously think MAGA is going to make that distinction? No matter how many times we explain things to them, they take Trump at his word. If he gets pardoned, he is going to shout from the rooftops that he never did anything wrong to begin with, it was all a political hit job, and he got pardoned because he’s innocent. And MAGA is going to lap it up. Pardoning him gets us nothing.
He will do that anyway. What MAGA thinks doesn’t matter… it is what the rest of the world sees. And not pardoning gets us nothing except to allow Trump to claim he has vindicated himself and the unjustly convicted patriots.
He himself will never need a pardon (not even a self-pardon) because the Federal Courts have never convicted him and will never convict him. So Biden giving him a pardon (along with the release of Jack Smith’s damning reports) makes it clear Trump was guilty and needed to be pardoned
Sorry, not buying that line of thinking.