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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't know who this Twitterer is, but he/she hits the nail RIGHT on the head about trump:
Link to tweet
LuvNewcastle
(16,867 posts)He ate what he killed.
czarjak
(11,332 posts)gordianot
(15,253 posts)He did not lie once even when he was caught.
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)has me confused. Doesn't he need to be officially charged with a crime first? Can't seen how that's going to happen before January 20.
Or am I missing something here? Call me CC (a Confused Canuck).
gordianot
(15,253 posts)For example when Nixon was pardoned he was not charged with a crime all potential crimes were pardoned up until the time of the pardon. There is a downside he has to admit to every crime or risk a new crime of perjury. The blanket pardon only goes up to the time he was pardoned. It makes your head spin there is a serious need to reconsider Presidential pardons.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,548 posts)gordianot
(15,253 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,601 posts)It's hard to give up something that a president of your own party can use to give criminals in his administration a get out of jail free card. So far as I know, Republicans are the only ones who have used that power politically.
Amending the constitution takes almost an act of God these days.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,440 posts)Nixon never fulfilled the requirements for receiving a pardon. He did not admit guilt for any crime for which the blanket pardon was issued. Rather, Fords pardon ended up being a political statement (ending the long national nightmare) instead of a legal one.
Others may know more about this. It seems as if the parameters for Nixons pardon can be easily expanded to future crimes, since the absence of culpability is present in both Nixons case and in a hypothetical future actions pardon.
bringthePaine
(1,742 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,579 posts)A strange train of thought, for sure. All true, though.
bucolic_frolic
(43,478 posts)wow!
kimbutgar
(21,271 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)William769
(55,150 posts)Cha
(298,021 posts)that way!
DemoTex
(25,407 posts)"Ted Bundy had traits of narcissism as displayed in the DSM 5 criteria: a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, lack of empathy and a need for admiration which begins by early adulthood .."
https://www.psychiatrypodcast.com/psychiatry-psychotherapy-podcast/2019/2/5/the-dark-triad-psychopathy-narcissism-machiavellianism-sexually-violent-predators-ted-bundy-and-porn
lpbk2713
(42,774 posts)Trump annoys the hell out of everyone he comes in contact with.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Something the orange one has never possessed.
peoli
(3,111 posts)FakeNoose
(32,892 posts)Maybe ... ?
Baltimike
(4,148 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)No idea why, but reading other responses in this thread sounds like they were comparing him to Dahmer? Hokay.
William769
(55,150 posts)All the people that reced this OP were making light of the people that were raped and or murdered by this monster which happened to be most African American men & other Gays.
Now insert other minorities or the other gender into that tweet & tell me if you would still have that many records.
Fucking disgusting.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Renew Deal
(81,897 posts)From: @wolf1jack
Just so we're clear: Jeffrey Dahmer served longer in the Military, was accused of raping fewer people, was responsible for fewer deaths, and paid more taxes than Donald Trump.