• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    He’s not in prison, got re-elected, and has almost fully implemented a fascist dictatorship. If that isn’t victory for a megalomaniac narcissist, I don’t know what is.

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        10 days ago

        Meh, the good thing about such a pardon is that it can just be ignored by the next government, just like his government ignored everything that happened before

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          10 days ago

          That probably wouldn’t happen. What would happen is that it would go to the courts whether a president can really pardon himself or not. His corrupt SCOTUS might actually say they can, but regardless it would probably take long enough that he’d be dead and not caring.

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            4 days ago

            Yeah but here is the thing… laws only work if people obey them.

            Trump on multiple occasions just ignored judge rulings with full impunity.

            What trump can do, so can the next