Donald Trump grumbled that he’s unable to “go after” the members of the House select committee that investigated the events surrounding the January 6 riots because of Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon, which the former president said he issued to prevent his successor from prosecuting them.
Besides raging about his inability to exact retribution on the lawmakers who probed the attempted insurrection and his role in inciting the rioters, Trump also patted himself on the back for pardoning most of those convicted of crimes related to the Capitol attack.
Which is weird, given that he’s already ignoring the Constitution with regards to due process, that he wouldn’t just ignore it even more regarding pardons.
No see, this makes sense. If this administration is ever going to end, you know his last action will be pardoning everyone, and he doesn’t want the precedent of pardons being ignored.
I don’t disagree, but are they acting like they think they’ll never be out of power again?
I think its strategic. Similar to the poem “first they came for X, and I did not speak because I was not X”.
You deal with the lowest protected on the rung and move up. They dealt with non-citizens. Now they move to rural american citizens. He’ll get to them if we give him enough time to.
This is why rights have to apply to everyone. As soon as rights only apply to one group of people, no one has rights; they have privileges.