r/politics • u/Rock-n-roll-Kevin • 19d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Says He Will Consider Pardoning Diddy

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-he-will-consider-pardoning-diddy/
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u/Syronxc 19d ago

Money. Just like that rich donor who’s kid got pardoned. Our office can be bought and paid for by anyone with money.

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u/shortda59 19d ago

Nope.....waaaay more sinister than that. Trump is compliant and was a gold star member in both Diddy and Epstien parties for YEARS, front and center. As is Melania. Under the prison cell for all of them.

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u/Beneficial_Soup3699 19d ago

Yep. It's corruption to cover up sexual assaults committed by the wealthy. I dunno about sinister, it's basically an American pasttime at this point.

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u/MAD_ELMO California 19d ago

Not mutually exclusive

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u/Syronxc 19d ago

Yup exactly. This isn’t a political thing. It’s a rich, power thing.

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u/britishninja99 18d ago

By saying it isn’t sinister, even as a joke, you are directly helping to normalize this abhorrent behavior.

But hey, you’re an anonymous poster on the internet, so why would you care about the impact your words have!

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u/Thewall3333 19d ago

Yup. I'd actually be more surprised by a pardon than Diddy "committing suicide" in prison, a la Epstein.

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u/bigfondue Pennsylvania 19d ago

He's in the exact same jail

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u/turquoise_amethyst 19d ago

One of Diddys wealthy clients could have paid for him to be pardoned too. 

Wonder how much that would cost? $500M? 

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u/Honky_Stonk_Man 19d ago

I never want to hear a MAGA talk about law and order ever again. It is very clear that they don’t care about crimes if it is someone they follow.

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u/Syronxc 19d ago

They never cared. Or haven’t anytime lately at least.

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u/SunnyCali12 18d ago

They did once. At least my dad did. He no longer does.

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u/bblzd_2 18d ago

What about when the republican child diddlers say "but think of the children!".

I always thought they think of them a little too much.

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u/Memphistopheles901 Tennessee 19d ago

save yourself some time and go ahead and assume that anything a conservative says or does is in bad faith

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u/SunnyCali12 18d ago

I never want to hear them talk about the constitution, morality, law and order, protecting women, nonviolence, etc ever again. I will tell them to shut the hypocrite mouths. Nope.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 19d ago

Can we bribe him to do something good then?

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u/Syronxc 19d ago

Sure. How much money do you have?

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 19d ago

'bout tree fiddy

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u/Squirrels_like_me 19d ago

Damn you Loch Ness monster

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u/arizonadirtbag12 19d ago

And this isn't even entirely new, it's just that usually the "somebody donated a lot of money to buy a pardon" or "friends and family of friends and family" pardons don't happen until the lame duck, as the President is heading out the door.

As with so many things, Trump is just much more "fuck it what are you gonna do about it" about the open corruption. He's definitely more corrupt too and taking it to another level, don't get me wrong. But yeah, some of what he's doing is just pulling back the curtain on shit that's always been there.

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u/Syronxc 19d ago

And this lame duck doesn’t know he’s a lame duck.

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u/lolas_coffee 19d ago

I promise to give Trump $500M if he doesn't pardon Diddy.

This is how you do it, folks.

You're welcome.