Wait a minute, I have a plan:
DC is a Federal Jurisdiction. There is no State that can also prosecute you.
So, I go rob a bank in DC, then buy a pardon with the money I just got.
Profit?
🤔
checks my skin color
fuck nvm
I go rob a bank
What? There’s nothing in a bank worth robbing nowadays.
If you want to be pardoned you have to think big and make sure something goes to a Trump.
Also make sure to not steal from someone rich, so stick to wage theft, crypto scams or tax fraud
When Indulgences return, where is our modern day Jan Hus or Martin Luther?
Probably already illegally detained and shipped off to a torture prison in one of americas vassal states
It’s more of a time for a Mexican Joker anyway.
Wait, the pardon can invalidate having to pay restitution too‽
Looks like it. So that guy just made a profit of 3.4 million (1 mil for the bribe out of 4.4 mil he had to pay back).
That’s not even the part I’m shocked about. Cancelling prison or even fines for the perp is one thing, but it’s fucking absurd that Trump can just unilaterally decide the victims don’t get their money back!
The current system doesn’t have more vigilante justice, because people still believe that it’s better as a whole to have justice be impartial and not take things into their own hands. Acts like these destroy this illusion. These people who got screwed over now see there is no justice to be had by trusting the system, so why not go all green Mario to see justice done? Each of these acts is like a hammer to the dam of popular sentiment.
Yeah this is the reason there’s so much violence in the drug trade. If someone robs a drug dealer, they can’t go to the police. If someone encroaches on a gang’s territory, they can’t sue. If a cartel budges out a rival cartel through shady business practices, there’s no legal recourse. So the result of all the situations is extreme violence.
That’s the end road here if the justice system continues to be corrupted. There will eventually become a point where people see the rich getting richer off the suffering of others, and with no legal recourse, will resort to violence.
The 2nd Amendment exists as a remedy when all the other Amendments fail.
Yet I fear that the second amendment mostly exists as a pacifier to keep people clinging to the perceived security of “having the 2nd amendment after all”.
Keeping something as a last resort is meaningless if you are never willing to actually tap it.
Then it is just comfort.
His pardon gets him off the hook for Federal criminal charges, but I wonder if he could still be found liable in a civil lawsuit.
Yes, he can. Further, Burdick v. US basically says that accepting a pardon is evidence of guilt. The conviction and pardon can be used as evidence in the civil suit.
It’s a dangerous game tho.
It can very well invalidate the life of the pardoned as well, if one of the aggrieved party has nothing left to lose because of that wage theft.
I wonder how long Donvict can continue before he gets stopped for good.CEO decides to FA with his cancer-stricken employee’s pay, FO’s what a knife to the neck feels like.
Nice.
I wish I was on that jury, I’d never vote to convict.
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It is weird having the corruption so in-your-face.
It must suck to be a conspiracy theorist when The Powers That Be don’t even bother hiding anything
I think most conspiracists are MAGA, tbh. They probably think all this is fine because it happened before or something.
Its Luigi Time!
There’s a weird reverse ethical principle about it, as if it’s somehow more honest this way.
Murder is only a crime if you are not rich, a politician or a policeman.
Less theater around it
Now That’s What I Call
Briberytwo completely unrelated events 84!When the rich are able to buy pardons, vigalantes are justified.
We have tyranny and no rule of law anyway, so yeah might as well.
Punisher soundtrack intensifies
No get out of jail free card, but apparently a get out of jail for $1mil card.
Get out of jail and out of paying $4.4 million for $1 million. So it’s a “get out of jail and here take this $3.4 million” card.
Maybe the Luigi Brothers should stop by and “un-pardon” him?
i love this. US laws regarding bribery are barely a notch above the honor system already.
the rules are basically “hey, you can take bribes in return for favors, but please make sure that your briber doesn’t say ‘I’m giving you this sack of money, conviently labeled “bribes”, as a bribe so you can do favors for me in exchange’ and you don’t say ‘understood, i will abuse my power to do favors for you in exchange for this bribe’—and as long as you don’t both say these things on record and label the money as ’bribes’ you’re good”…
… and this motherfucker’s like “let’s just do it anyway, we’ll get away with it so who cares”
This will just make the GOP more loyal to Trump now that they know they don’t have to follow rules.
I mean, he will do more tomorrow, and no one can do anything about it legally…
This is nothing new. He did this at the end of his first term too.
Further proof that Trump is a shrewd businessman. Joe Biden gave his pardons away for free, like a sucker.
