In the wake of his 17-year jail sentence, Joseph Bigg said: “Oh, I know he’ll pardon. I believe that with all my heart.”

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Regardless of political leanings, if one of the steps in your master plan is “receive pardon from glorious leader once they return to power”, you might want to rethink what you’re about to do.

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Good news then, he’s got 17 years to think about it

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People in the freaken gulags were waiting for Stalin to pardon them. No one, including myself, wants to accept the existence they almost certainly have and will have hope for saviour. Even if it is the person who put them there.

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HEY MEDIA!

Stop. Giving. These. Fuckwits. Attention!

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On the contrary, make an example of what happens to insurrectionists.

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Oh, I completely agree on that point. But let them fade into the dark where cockroaches belong and stop giving them free advertising for their gofundme accounts!

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as delusional as ever

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Trump May pardon him, despite all his pretending he doesn’t know what a proud boy is.

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‘trump will pardon him with his mind. from his own prison cell’

good luck with that.

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Dollars to donuts Trump doesn’t even know this dude exists.

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irrelevant since he cant pardon anyone while he himself is in prison and disqualified from holding any office

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The constitutional qualifications for being president are being a natural-born U.S. citizen, a resident for at least 14 years and over the age of 35. A person can be disqualified by conviction in a Senate impeachment trial, but a criminal conviction does not affect eligibility.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/17/can-convicted-felon-run-for-president/

He can become president again even if he’s in prison. And then he can pardon anyone including himself.

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Or would care to.

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I’d pay good money to see his face the moment he realizes that Trump isn’t going to help him

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Sorry, that isn’t a pay to win feature. You’ll have to wait the 16 years 11 months and 25 days for him to realize it.

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Where’s the remind me bot when you need it…

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but he believes it with all his heart… all teaspoon and a half of it…

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A lot of prisons have video phones now.

You could probally actually call him if you want to pay $10/min or whatever it is.

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As tempting as that sounds, Talking to insurrectionists for fun is probably a good way to get put on a list.

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