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    Pardon me

    So Trump threw Rudy under the bus, there goes his pardon. Now for the rest of em

    Trump needs cash for debts. I gotta wonder how much one needs to donate to Trumps Pac to acquire said pardon(s)
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    Ask Marc Rich. It cost him $1,000,000 in 2000 to buy one from Clinton. Adjust for inflation, natch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin View Post
    Ask Marc Rich. It cost him $1,000,000 in 2000 to buy one from Clinton. Adjust for inflation, natch.

    Trump will probably top that to make it the Bigliest PAC Donation
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    https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardo...t-donald-trump

    https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons

    Trump's got a long way to go and a short time to get there to catch up.
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    Rumor has it Rudy was trying to sell his service as a middleman for 2 million

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/u...gtype=Homepage
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    I don't think that should surprise anyone......
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    The moral depravity of this administration and it's hangers on has no equal.
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    Why do we need this presidential perk? Is it somehow underpinning our republic?
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    Quote Originally Posted by CactusCurt View Post
    Why do we need this presidential perk? Is it somehow underpinning our republic?
    Far wiser folks than me seem to believe it has value---other than selling them that is. So--I'll let it up to the wise ones
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    Does trump even have the power to pardon anyone other than the Christmas turkey at this point?

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    Right up until noon on Wednesday.

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    I have not been surprised at anything since the day Carter pardoned Peter Yarrow.
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    I was the same way when Buchanan pardoned Brigham Young.

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