Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Well…pardons work both ways, don’t they? Trump’s time in power is rather limited at this point.

    • ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca
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      7 days ago

      And his history of pardoning real criminals and genuine terrorists is well established.

      When biden pardoned his son, it seemed like a dick move, but the accusations against his son were 100% politically motivated. Trump’s own sons did far, far worse and similar shit but got no legal trouble.

      Also biden commuting the federal death sentences of all federal inmates except for a few was also justified. Trump went insane with executions. He executed more people than any president of the 20th century. FDR had a record… But he was a 3 term president and half his executions were German saboteurs during ww2. Trump almost beat his record in 6 months… And I should mention that post 1963 until 2020 the US federally only executed 3 people. They were under Bush, and one of them was Timothy McVeigh.