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And that’s basically it!
Will be a list full of overt distractions all to hide the 3-5 pardons he REALLY doesn't want you to focus on.
And each pardon only cost $250,000.
lol, no try 1 to 8 million.
"Letting Criminals Go Free" seems to track now that "Law and Order" is on the wane.
If the president weighs 250 pounds on the 250th anniversary, that would be awesome.
No doubt they'll be the people least deserving
Somebody shoot him another email.
Preferably written on copper
Nothing says "250th anniversary of the nation's founding" quite like the Felon-in-Chief pardoning even more of his criminal cronies and sycophants.
We do have the highest incarcerated population on the planet, it's pretty on theme.
So.. 250 people charged in connection with epstein files?
Or 250 preemptive pardons for himself and all his cabinet members.
Possibly. Or it'll be 250 people that will pay the Drumpf family the most money for the pardon.
Or both.
Tbf auctioning off 250 pardons would bring in a lot of money for him
Gotta keep the grifting going.
250 Pardons for himself.
Maybe. More likely just more bribes.
The article isn't loading for me, but if the headline is accurate, there is no way to logically cast this in a positive light because you're arbitrarily playing with people's lives to match a number that happens to be a round number in base 10.
I think we all know that there aren't going to be exactly 250 people who deserve pardons. So either they are pardoning too many people and letting criminals go free without completing their sentences, or there are more than 250 people who deserve pardons. Imagine being the 251st person. "Sorry, but Trump wanted exactly 250, so you don't get a pardon."
Your in jail for smoking weed, guy next to you in there for rape, murder, armed robbery and arms smuggling alright and 250th pardoned is this guyyyy as they help the other guy up to be let go
I chuckled at your “deserved pardons” line. As if that has anything to do with who would be chosen. Going by the pardons this administration has been handing out so far, just pick the top 250 business moguls doing time for fraud. Boom. 250 easy.
Idk if that’s better or worse tbh
Lol you could do 250 of thousands of different things that would all be objectively better than pardoning 250 convicted criminals.
It'd be pretty easy to hand out 250 pardons to reasonable, reformed or innocent people.
Of course he won't. He'll pardon anyone who pays him.
You just know Ghislaine Maxwell is on that list. Someone has to get her body double out of Club Fed.
Gonna suck for the double. I doubt the retirement is very long.
250k per pardon
If you saw this in something like the Hunger Games you wouldn't bat an eye.
Has anyone noticed that this Trump guy is kind of a cunt?
Release Barabbas! Release Barabbas! Seriously, is it any more clear that any pretense of good governance has been abandoned and it is all just turning into bread and circuses? I’d like to observe that while roughly 9% of presidents have been assassinated, about 40% of Roman emperors were, so this whole “bread and circuses” might not work as well as they think.
Don't get your hopes up, for some reason all of trumps would-be-assassins are completly inept to the level that one might suggest these attempts were staged.
Why stop there? Try 250 war crimes while you're at it oh look, a convenient war.
I feel like this is what happens if the penguin becomes president.
I wish hell was real.
More criminals on the roads.
With any other president, I van see the pardon as a sign of compassion. With him, it is a pay-for-pardon scheme for criminals that managed to align with the Conman in Command.