(10-08-2025, 09:36 AM)FlyersFan Wrote: Dunno. What I'm reading is that almost all of the 1600 were for January 6.
His first term he barely had any.
I'm still of the opinion that it should be ZERO pardons given by ANY president.
It seems that the ultimate position to stop mean-spirited, legal persecution ("lawfare,") and such abuses of "political" power to force prosecution on biased terms is: "the pardon."
J6 was a perfect example of people being persecuted en mass for "political/virtue signaling." The pardons are exactly as intended...
Of course I have no illusion that, had the sides been "reversed"
absolutely nothing would change except the flipped narrative of damning your enemies... but the words would be practically identical.
It should be illegal for political press to do what they do.... while "selling" presumed "fact."
But I agree that unless fully explained...
it's hard to see a President from outside the legal process not indirectly say:
"Judiciary - you failed abjectly." in not so many words.
I would expect ANY judge to be blown out of the water to have their Legal efforts... nullified.