Bombshell Report Says Trump Promised to Pardon His Entire Staff
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Dawsey cited “people who have heard his comments” in the bombshell report that Trump is asking his staff to operate with a sense of impunity.

Donald Trump has promised to pardon his White House staffers, reported the Wall Street Journal’s Josh Dawsey in an exclusive report on Friday.

Dawsey, the veteran DC reporter, cited “people who have heard his comments” in the bombshell report revealing that Trump is asking his staff to operate with a sense of impunity.

“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump reportedly told staffers “in a recent meeting to laughs.”

  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    238 found this helpful·
    2 days ago

    Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, dismissed Trump’s comments in a statement, saying, “The Wall Street Journal should learn to take a joke, however, the President’s pardon power is absolute.”

    It’s just a joke, bro! Unless…

    • TommySoda@lemmy.world
      105 found this helpful·
      2 days ago

      Y’all are the actual government of an entire country. You shouldn’t be making fucking jokes in the first place especially when it pertains to the law. And if this was a joke, it’s not even a very good one.

      • bradinutah@thelemmy.club
        23 found this helpful·
        2 days ago

        The Donvict operates this way, testing the waters to see how far he can go and see what might stick.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      4 found this helpful·
      1 day ago

      It’s not like he’s blanket pardoned over a thousand hard criminals that attacked federal officers and property or anything. I’m sure this is nothing.

    • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip
      37 found this helpful·
      2 days ago

      my kid reverts to “im just joking” when they know they fucked up, and they are 8. is the potus an 8yo?

    • jimmy90@lemmy.world
      2 found this helpful·
      2 days ago

      in december when both houses are returned to sanity the work of overturning pardons one by one will start

      there will be no safe place for these people

      • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world
        7 found this helpful·
        1 day ago

        I’ll believe it when I see it. Maybe if you manage to primary candidates that have a spine and will actually do this.

        (But yes, everyone should vote blue in general midterms, because the electoral system is cooked and the alternative is messed up beyond words. Especially those who believe Dems are just pretending to oppose fascism or sometjing - the more the Dems win, the more their bluff gets called. And one can say: “Okay, we voted blue and blue won. Now what?”)