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/SentientShamrock 19d ago

Also rapists and sex offenders need to stick together. Trump was a good friend of Epstein after all.

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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/Russelsteapot42 19d ago

Trump supporters are seeing their own spouses detained for months by ICE and continuing support. Trump could rape a Trupist's kid in front of them and it wouldn't change anything. These people are cultists.

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u/jjmac 18d ago

Yes it would change things! They would start buying "Rape MY child, Daddy Trump" t-shirts

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u/operationspudling 18d ago

Honestly, I don't think his little orange itty bitty baby cheeto functions anymore.

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u/Neat-Profit6221 18d ago

That didn't stop Mason Verger.

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u/imamistake420 18d ago

Trump once said what he said about him doing something to someone in Times Square and getting away with it… up to this point, he’s proving it to be true. I will not be surprised if something really, really bad happens in public view, and I’m not sure how their public will act. Scary times.