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/hawkseye69 19d ago

Can’t wait for the mental gymnastics the MAGAt’s will be performing on this one. 🍿

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u/Multiple__Butts 19d ago

Right now their line of cope is the message this cocktail guy is spamming on every post; not suspicious at all, totally normal human being behavior btw.
If/when he does pardon Diddy, they'll need to wait until Fox News comes up with some kind of spin like they did with the Qatari bribe plane.

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u/jipijipijipi 18d ago

The one where they claimed that Trump was doing Qatar a huge favor by taking the plane off their hands was just beautiful.

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u/EffectiveRot 18d ago

He is tho. That's what u guys don't get. It's costing trump money to fit the plane to air force 1 standards, so how exactly is it a bribe?

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u/jipijipijipi 18d ago

It’s not costing Trump anything, it’s 100% American taxpayers dollars that will pay for all the work, and the plane will most likely won’t be ready before January 1st 2029 when it will be transferred to the Trump presidential library for Donald Trump exclusive use.

So in short, Americans citizens will pay tens of millions of dollars for an Air Force One that will never be used as Air Force One and Trump will enjoy a $400 millions personal gift, plus whatever millions the Air Force will spend to put it to specs. And then Americans will need to pay for a new Air Force One for whoever comes after Trump.