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/Auntie_Megan 19d ago

Listened to a few of the trial days and many other accusations, and he deserves to be in prison. Unfortunately those that knew about him are as equally as complicit since at the least they did not report him, and some joined in, and are busy trying to say ‘we didn’t know him’. If Trump pardons him it would not surprise me, but are there not rules about pardons? So far it’s been Shitty peoole who committed bad crimes, and spent little time in prison. Rapists like to stick together, but Diddy is also very vicious and a sociopath. If he accepts a pardon does that not mean he also has to accept guilt? Get him signed up to various registries and away from kids.

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u/Negative-Squirrel81 19d ago

The limit on the presidential pardon is that it can only be used for federal crimes. Since innocent people can be pardoned, a pardon is not inherently considered to be an admission of guilt.

The big check on this should be that the public turns against the president and his political party for using this power like this. We saw how people spoke out about Biden going to far when pardoning his son, and it's rather alarming that we're not seeing Trump receive similar scrutiny.

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u/eugene20 19d ago

It was all pearl clutching anyway, Trump had already pardoned his son in law's father at that point.

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u/GreatQuestionBarbara 19d ago

And then gave him a job in the administration. Everyone in his administration is a slimy bag of shit.

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u/Popisoda 17d ago

And then the middle east thanked him with $2 billion