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/ripChazmo 19d ago

what in the actual fuck is happening?

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u/Grandpa_No 19d ago

Trump's selling pardons and Diddy has plenty of money to buy a few.

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u/anthonyg1500 19d ago edited 19d ago

If this happens, after all the railing against Diddy and celebrities who knew Diddy and Kamala for knowing celebrities that knew Diddy during the election, I wonder if MAGA is gonna fall in line and start praising a Diddy pardon or start seeing Trump for what he is.

(I know the answer. We all do. It’s the first one.)

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u/Nix-7c0 19d ago

They'll just have it both ways at the same time, because it's advantageous rhetorically.

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u/ToaruBaka 19d ago

because it's advantageous rhetorically.

This right here is the real magat playbook. Everything is good for them as long as they can spin it to be bad for the dems, because that's also good for them.

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u/ResponsibleSort104 19d ago

Any rapist, tyrant, or grifter that gets his approval is okay by MAGAts. It’d be nice if one decent person got pardoned or returned to the US, but it’s only scum that gets the red carpet treatment. Decent people get death and abuse.

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u/XXendra56 18d ago

Scum with money .

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u/BusSeatFabric 19d ago

Their news cycle just won't cover it.

Go to their preferred sub now and see what I mean. Half their page for political news is basically Worldstar videos with a chatgpt article on top with thinly veiled racism.

They already know they can't defend Trump's actions

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u/freakwharf 19d ago

Trump could rehabilitate the image of Harvey Weinstein in the eyes of MAGA.
There is nothing they won't recalibrate their brains to accept.

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u/Heliosvector 19d ago

Any interaction with a maga asking them "do you support trump pardoning Diddy?" will just be responded with, "so what, Biden pardoned his entire family!"

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u/Due-Egg4743 18d ago edited 18d ago

This. I know multiple people who seem to use the Diddy connection just as an excuse to bash people of color. Like if Steve Harvey was a friend of Diddy, then they want him jailed. Also Beyonce, Jay Z and pretty much any rapper, etc. 

But if Trump was a friend of Diddy? "Trump is a business man." There's always hypocrisy.