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Trump All But Confesses to Mishandling Classified Docs on Fox News The former president, facing charges of mishandling classified information, nearly confessed to the crime — while blaming his “golf shirts”

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've read the theory that he's so fucked legally he's just angling for a guarantee of a pardon from whoever beats him in the primary, if someone does; or otherwise a self-pardon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a real danger. The first time anyone with an ( R ) next to their name wins the Presidency, he's getting a pardon, maybe even posthumously.

It's not a danger because I think he's a jackass, but because, by all evidence so far, he's broken the law, and such an action would be


even if he is not proven guilty


conceding that some people in this country are above the law.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's one thing though that might stop them.

Pardoning him means having to run against him in the next election, regardless of age.