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Are we going to pretend like he didn’t know?

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No, not for even a nano-second. Been hoping and expecting this to come out.

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🥳👍🍾🥂

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Half the voting population will.

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Half the population will say that this is fake news and that Biden’s DOJ is making it up.

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Half the people that answer the phone calls when posters call them in the middle of dinner respond as you say

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I think, per usual, we’re going to pretend this is a witch hunt and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with any of this but the Dems are fighting dirty so now they’re justified in fighting dirty too!

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Given how stupid his statements have been, I could believe he didn’t know…

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The president’s pardon power is so ill-defined, that might actually be legal. No one has so blatantly put it to the test before in 250 years, so we dont actually know.

The conservative supreme court did rule that bribery is only bribery if you explicitly state “i am bribing you for this, with this” which makes a lot of sense when you see how many times Clarence Thomas has gotten “free loans” and “here’s a house, some tuition and some vacations, pal” in his career. Not to mention the slightly lesser grifts by Roberts and Alito.

Since the 2mil was for an “audience” and not a pardon, I bet it actually wasent illegal. Just deeply, deeply immoral and “should be illegal, but the conservatives on the high court are on the take” so its not.

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No, it would be illegal if the intent was clear. All the communications beforehand would establish that a pardon is needed. Things are not actually negotiated with a wink and nod.

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The Constitution was written by a generation who lived and died on their reputation and integrity. It never occurred to them that a criminal with absolutely zero shame about being a criminal could get elected president. The system wasn’t designed to handle someone like Trump.

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This is my shocked face 😐

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Oh my God! He’s melting!

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His human suit was just slipping

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You don’t look like Pikachu!

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My. God. Who could’ve predicted this?

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Unfortunately, the people whos opinion or behavior would change based on this information, will just take the news as proof that the deep state corrupt leftist “russia hoax” is real.

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