Lawfare Presents: After Trump, Obstruction and Pardons

Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath

Lawfare

Trump, News & Politics, January 6, Politics, Lawfare, Insurrection

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🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The pardon power was designed to be a tool for correcting wrongs. Any system of justice applied to a whole nation is going to have failures. A pardon is there to correct miscarriages of justice—and injustice. It was always believed that if a president abused his pardon authority, it would be so appalling to so many, at such a gut level, that the checks on the President would instantly kick in: He’s be impeached, forced to resign, voted out. Trump pushed this theory. And the results were worrisome—to say the least.

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0:41.3	Alright, we are just going through some of this breaking news.
0:43.8	Moments ago, President Trump issued another round of pardons, including...
0:49.9	I want to tell you a story about obnoxious obstructions and pathetic pardons.
0:54.9	President Donald Trump is spending the holidays in Florida at his golf course.
1:00.4	But he had time last night to hand out early Christmas gifts to dozens of allies and loyalists
1:06.4	in the form of controversial presidential pardons.
1:10.4	Once upon a time, there was an American president who was like Peter Rabbit,
1:15.4	always getting into mischief. And Lordy B, he had a lot of running buddies
1:20.8	who committed plain old crimes.
1:23.4	The men who helped get Donald Trump into the White House now faces almost seven years in prison
1:28.4	on charges stemming from his political consulting in Ukraine.
1:31.4	President Trump's former national security adviser admitting he lied to the FBI.
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