Ridiculous. A man who breaks laws and violates the constitution daily calling out his predecessor for using the wrong kind of pen while attempting to protect people from persecution. If there were a functioning justice system this would be dismissed out of hand.
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Presidential pardons most definitely should NOT exist. But also, F Trump.
To be fair, someone willing to abuse pardons that wantonly is never meant to become President in the first place. The Electoral College was supposed to be one protection against that, but obviously that has been a massive failure.
This is another one of those ‘scary and must riot’ thresholds.
Americans are known to miss that boat. Remember when Americans rioted over the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia when they dropped bombs on the city and let blocks burn? Or that time when Americans rioted over the police and government firebombing Tulsa? Or that time Americans rioted over the people who caused the '08 financial crisis not receiving justice?
Inb4 Trump starts issuing executive orders with "constitutional amendments".
I hope he executes Hunter Biden in the street so libs wake the fuck up :)
Sounds like a sovereign citizen “where’s the wet ink signature?” kind of complaint.
ha, says the guy who wants to make things declassified by his thoughts alone.
Man I am getting so tired of saying “I fucking told you so” to so many people.
after autopen controversy
There go the media again implicitly giving credence to Trump's nonsense. There was no "autopen controversy" except Trump making this groundless assertion. They make it sound like he's responding to a real controversy.
By his logic, we could treat Trump's pardons as 'void and vacant' as well.
What, are you suggesting that our virile Supreme Leader, renowned for his stamina and attention span, didn’t sign all 1,600 J6 pardons by hand?
His aren't signed by a pen at all and could easily be fraudulent because of it. Think about it, an 8bit graphic is much easier to copy than 32bit.
I believe our strong, virile leader spent all their waking hours signing those 3,300 J6 pardons while big, strong men stood their with tears rolling down their cheeks.
This isn't a country of law and order anymore. Laws only apply when Trump wants them to apply. There is no logic beyond that.
I hate when articles like this use words like controversy. There is no controversy when someone just makes up that a standard thing is now an issue.
If this sticks, then maybe the next democrat in office can reverse all of the Jan 6 pardons?
That is wishful thinking. The democrats have never responded in kind to republicans breaking precedent. If there's any lesson to be learned from the 2024 election, it is that democrats hold "precedent", "decorum", and "mature pragmatism" to be more important than winning (or quelling fascism).
It's the same wishful thinking as people who were saying "Biden could use the new presidential inmunity SCOTUS ruling to legally assassinate trump!"
Understand that both democrats and republicans are driving us off a cliff.
In fact, every law that wasn't written by hand with an ink-dipped quill is illegitimate! The magic spells won't work if we don't follow the rituals exactly.
All of these statements read of sovereign citizen crud.
See many posts here: !insanepeoplefacebook@lemmy.world
They've been signaling this for a week on r/conservative

If they want to disqualify for being mentally incompetent, then all of Trump's and at least half of Regan's terms are also void.
I also love that dipshit who still can't even admit that Biden won the election.
You can keep pretending things go back to the way they were after trump. I've given up on that illusion. Do yourself a favor and realize now that trump will not freely cede power.
The irony of them calling Biden a "President Puppet" when we all know Trump is a poorly disguised Russian Puppet
Making it even more clear that he never expects there to be another president.
He’s also trying to draw attention away from the illegal deportations they did over the weekend.
Something here is "void and vacant" to be sure, but it isn't Biden's pardons.
[Trump wrote] “The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden.”
"Not explained to."
Dipshit is really telling on himself here that actually reading an EO didn't even occur to him, he relies on others to dumb them down for him.
Last week, the group challenged the legitimacy of the orders signed by Biden claiming that an “autopen signature” was used across almost “every document” it could find.
However, a Fox News examination of President Donald Trump’s executive orders during his first and second administrations found “the signatures were also the same.” Twenty-five of Trump's signatures on the Federal Register’s website from across both terms also found signature matched, according to a separate analysis by the Daily Mail.
They're exposing the constitution of for the flawed document that it is
Sorry, trying to be positive
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