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GOP senator on Trump pardons: 'This is rotten to the core'
« on: December 24, 2020, 01:47:14 pm »
GOP senator on Trump pardons: 'This is rotten to the core'
The Hill, Dec 23, 2020

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Wednesday blasted President Trump’s latest pardons of political allies such as former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and political adviser Roger Stone as “rotten to the core.”

Sasse issued his statement Wednesday evening, specifically mentioning Manafort and Stone.

“This is rotten to the core,” he said in a terse one-liner.

The statement by Sasse said that “felons like Manafort and Stone” had “flagrantly and repeatedly violated the law and harmed Americans.”

Sasse was the first GOP senator out of the gate to criticize the pardons.  Others are likely to follow.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the lead Democratic prosecutor during Trump’s impeachment trial, called Manafort’s pardon particularly outrageous.

“During the Mueller investigation, Trump’s lawyer floated a pardon to Manafort. Manafort withdrew his cooperation with prosecutors, lied, was convicted, and then Trump praised him for not ‘ratting.’ Trump’s pardon now completes the corrupt scheme. Lawless until the bitter end,” Schiff tweeted Wednesday.

Several Senate Republicans urged Trump to avoid sparking a scandal over pardons.


https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/531545-gop-senator-on-trump-pardons-this-is-rotten-to-the-core

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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2020, 01:59:57 pm »
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Several Senate Republicans urged Trump to avoid sparking a scandal over pardons.

And remember, they're our firewall.   :smokin:
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« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2020, 02:25:35 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on December 24, 2020, 01:59:57 pm
And remember, they're our firewall.   :smokin:

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« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2020, 03:30:41 pm »
Never-Trumper Sasse ... The Hill ... whatever.

What did Sasse say about OhBummer!'s and Clinton's pardons of thugs and terrorists? Anything?
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« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2020, 03:44:55 pm »
Sleazebags Manafort and Stone can rot under the jail as far as I am concerned.
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« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2020, 03:55:15 pm »
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Ben Sasse was crying about Trump's pardons only one day after he voted YES on a Porkulus bill to screw the American worker.

It's time for a 3rd party. 

I've had it with the Republican Party.


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Pardon Assange and Snowden today ...

I want to see if spontaneous human combustion is real or just a conspiracy theory.


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« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2020, 03:59:27 pm »
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Sleazebags Manafort and Stone can rot under the jail as far as I am concerned.

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Robert Mueller should be in prison for what he did to Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.


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« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2020, 04:00:59 pm »
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Robert Mueller should be in prison for what he did to Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.


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And he can take that sleaze bag, Weissman, with him!
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Re: GOP senator on Trump pardons: 'This is rotten to the core'
« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2020, 04:03:16 pm »
Hmm.... 'rotten to the core'.   Sounds like Sasse is describing himself, the other RINOs and the treasonous POS DemocRats.   Projection.
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« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2020, 04:06:24 pm »
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Robert Mueller should be in prison for what he did to Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.


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My POV unrelated to Mueller.    Some sins of the '16 primaries just can not be unpunished or forgiven.
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« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2020, 04:45:16 pm »
What exactly did Manafort and Stone do? Pretty much just victimless crime... I always thought Stone was just a political prisoner. Didn't they raid his house in the middle of the night or some BS?
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What exactly did Manafort and Stone do? Pretty much just victimless crime... I always thought Stone was just a political prisoner. Didn't they raid his house in the middle of the night or some BS?

They had the nerve to associate in a positive way with Donald J. Trump.   That's what they "did".   And if you voted for or support the Democrats, that is the type of "justice" you will receive from now on.
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Re: GOP senator on Trump pardons: 'This is rotten to the core'
« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2020, 05:10:49 pm »
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My POV unrelated to Mueller.    Some sins of the '16 primaries just can not be unpunished or forgiven.

What did Stone do, exactly, that earned him a midnight home invasion by the FBI captured live by CNN?

What did Manafort do, exactly, that earned him solitary confinement on Rikers Island?

@catfish1957   --  What were their crimes?
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What did Stone do, exactly, that earned him a midnight home invasion by the FBI captured live by CNN?

What did Manafort do, exactly, that earned him solitary confinement on Rikers Island?

@catfish1957   --  What were their crimes?

Unrelated but read about what they did to Dinesh D'Souza, pretty clear this is just stuff designed to harass conservatives.
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« Reply #16 on: December 24, 2020, 06:08:09 pm »
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Ben Sasse was crying about Trump's pardons only one day after he voted YES on a Porkulus bill to screw the American worker.

It's time for a 3rd party. 

I've had it with the Republican Party.


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All people persecuted by the mulehead inquisition should be pardoned. The Pubs should be behind this 100%.

Trump should issue blanket pardons to anyone whoever worked in his administration in order to protect them from the "truth and reconciliation tribunals" that the Rats will begin if biden is in office.
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Re: GOP senator on Trump pardons: 'This is rotten to the core'
« Reply #17 on: December 24, 2020, 06:12:20 pm »
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Pardon Assange and Snowden today ...

I want to see if spontaneous human combustion is real or just a conspiracy theory.


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There was a time where I thought if the intelligence agencies, or federal law enforcement, claimed someone was a threat to national security I thought that person should be locked up for the rest of their life. Boy, was I wrong. I don't trust these deep state organizations any more.

I agree these men should be pardoned!
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« Reply #18 on: December 24, 2020, 06:21:49 pm »
This is why the pardon is such an invaluable tool for liberty and justice. Even when I don't agree with it.
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President George H.W. Bush pardoned former defense secretary Caspar Weinberger, former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane and four other people involved in the Iran-Contra scandal.


The deep state has been doing this shit for a while.
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« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2020, 10:25:15 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on December 24, 2020, 05:10:49 pm
What did Stone do, exactly, that earned him a midnight home invasion by the FBI captured live by CNN?

What did Manafort do, exactly, that earned him solitary confinement on Rikers Island?

@catfish1957   --  What were their crimes?

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Maybe a tad  harsh and over reactive on my part , but their role in primary character assassinations during the '16 primaries will never be forgiven in thoughts.   F Them!!!
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