Patrick says it's cool that Trump withheld appropriated dollars to get Hunter prosecuted, his AG set up a side channel for dirt from Russian spies, and Congress spent 2 years pursuing this as a political stunt.
All of these complainers have literally forgotten the scum criminals Trump pardoned. Real gross people. Murderers. Drug dealers. And one guy pardoned has a crime listed as “white slave trade”??
Patrick Chovanec is a solid guy and in my opinion Marcy was being unfair to him, mischaracterizing his principled criticism of the pardon as agreeing with the political harassment of the pardoned.
Interesting. Just checked my settings and Patrick is neither blocked or muted. If he had been it would have been accidental because his is a name I know as a longtime James Fallows reader.
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It shows as blocked because of Bluesky’s blocking behavior: from what I can tell, Patrick blocked Marcy for misrepresenting his position, and that block extends to their interactions (to prevent allies on one side or the other from piling on).
Granting clemency from unjust political prosecutions is the entire point of the Presidential pardon. If it can't be used here where could it be used? And if you're opposed to it's use here, then you are for rewarding corrupt political prosecutions. So no she didn't misrepresent his position.
I think these takes are rather ghoulish, actually. Those who believe this act of a President, using pardoning powers for private use, sets the country on a downward moral and ethical trajectory… when we’ve been there and back? Yes, it is unethical, and yet it had to be done! The POTUS doesn’t need
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Go back home now!
They are so disingenuous.
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