President Joe Biden had the perfect reaction when asked Monday by Fox White House correspondent Peter Doocy if he’d consider pardoning failed former president Donald Trump.
Mediaite notes that just last week Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would consider giving Trump a presidential pardon if he happens to be the next president.
That led Doocy to ask Biden the same question as the president was preparing to board Marine One at the White House.
“Did you see that Ron DeSantis said that if he became president, he would pardon Trump? Where are you on the idea of the president pardoning Trump?”
The president laughed, raised his hand, waved, and walked away as he remarked, “I’ll see you guys. That’s a great question.”
A lawsuit filed by a former aide to Rudy Giuliani accuses the former New York City mayor of selling presidential pardons and splitting the profits of those sales with indicted former president/sex offender Donald Trump.
The Independent reports that the suit was filed in a New York court on Monday, alleges that Giuliani bragged that he had sold pardons from Trump and made a cool fortune from the endeavor.
A former aide to former Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani says he told her the ex-New York City mayor and then-president Donald Trump were offering to sell presidential pardons for $2 million apiece, according to court documents.
The bombshell allegation was levied in a complaint filed against Mr Giuliani by Noelle Dunphy, a New York-based public relations professional who is suing him for “unlawful abuses of power, wide-ranging sexual assault and harassment, wage theft, and other misconduct” committed while she worked for him in 2019 and 2020.
(Giuliani) also asked Ms. Dunphy if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split. He told Ms. Dunphy that she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so long as they did not go through “the normal channels” of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, because correspondence going to that office would be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
If indeed Trump did agree to sell pardons with Giuliani’s help, the two could be facing enormous legal jeopardy, especially if Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith decides to pursue the accusations found in Dunphy’s lawsuit.
Smith is currently investigating if Trump committed crimes connected to the 2020 election and his removal of classified documents from the White House which he later took with him to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) got reminded of allegations that he tried to obtain a presidential pardon from disgraced ex-president Donald Trump and presented with the receipts by MSNBC host Ari Melber during a Monday appearance on The Beat.
Melber made reference to a December 2020 meeting at the White House where Trump discussed strategy with top advisers for how they could successfully overturn the results of the presidential election which was won by Joe Biden. He then asked Gaetz what he had suggested Trump do about the election. The Florida Republican replied, “Nothing. I was seeking to understand the process because this was unprecedented.”
Melber: “Did you hear anything in that meeting that you considered unconstitutional or illegal?”
Gaetz: “No.”
The host then inquired, “Then why after that meeting did you seek a pardon for yourself and others who attended that meeting?”
That’s when Gaetz began suggesting he never did any such thing:
“That’s been misreported What I’ve suggested is that there were various groups of people that President Trump was considering pardoning for a variety of reasons, and I was very involved in a number of pardon negotiations.”
Melber brought out the receipts, citing testimony given under oath to the Jan. 6 House Select Committee:
“They all testified under oath that you specifically requested a pardon,” he said, before playing snippets of testimony, including from former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. and former White House senior adviser Eric Herschmann.”
Gaetz went into full spin mode:
“Cassidy Hutchinson is a known liar. There’s testimony she’s given that directly results in perjury. So, I would certainly take exception with her testimony. I do not remember it the same way Eric Herschmann does. I did have conversations with Eric Herschmann about different groups of people that could potentially receive pardons, even including some of the people who may have committed a technical violation of federal law but that weren’t engaged in violence on Jan. 6.”
The congressman then suggested that he only sought pardons for others, not himself:
“I had a lot of conversations with [former White House Presidential Personnel Office Director John] McEntee about pardons for other folks and different groups of people. Whether or not some lawmakers would’ve fallen within those groups, I think, you know, could be debated and discussed. But when it comes to, you know, was I asking for something specifically for me and only me under those circumstances? The answer would be no.”
Dang. @AriMelber presents a bunch of receipts after Gaetz denies seeking a pardon from Trump in the last days of the Trump presidency pic.twitter.com/jIW497wGHd
It should be noted that Gaetz also reportedly sought a pardon from Trump for allegations that he had sex with an underage girl and took her across state lines in direct violation of federal law.
Geraldo Rivera just had the second worst idea of his life (the first being his failed 1986 opening of Al Capone’s vault, which contained nothing but some worthless debris), and once again he decided to share his idiocy with the world, only to be humiliated for the entire internet to see and mock.
Rivera wants President Joe Biden to give a presidential pardon to disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump for the “good of the nation.”
For the good of the nation, Ford pardoned Nixon. For the good of the nation, Biden should pardon Trump.
Ford pardoned Nixon for the good of the nation? Really? There have long been suggestions that Ford actually pardoned Nixon as part of a larger plan: Nixon agreed to hand the presidency to Ford in return for getting a pass on all of his many crimes while in office.
It should also be noted that when Ford ran for reelection in 1976, the nation decided he needed to be booted from the White House and elected Jimmy Carter.
Pardon Trump? To hell with that idea! The man has repeatedly avoided paying the price for a lifetime of criminal behavior and belongs behind bars until the day he passes from this world.
Sorry, Geraldo, but Twitter thinks you should go back to Capone’s vault, only this time be sure and stay there.
5 times married, Geraldo Rivera, has been asking President Biden to pardon Trump. He also cheered Trump for pardoning Mike Flynn. What a "patriot" this man is. I feel the need to send him into Al Capone's vault, for a little while. pic.twitter.com/6xEFpPsnJq
Nixon did not lead an insurrection. While Nixon didn't think he'd committed a crime, he resigned for the good of the country. He did not hold hateful rallies and seek vengeance. He did not steal documents nor make our enemies his BFF. He didn't try to undermine democracy.
Geraldo, for the good of the country, Justice needs to be preserved. If there are people who can’t accept that, that’s on them. Pardon Trump and another Trump will take his place. pic.twitter.com/P4J269rPmT
Hindsight being 20/20, you could argue that Ford pardoning Nixon is one of the worst, if not the worst, decisions in U.S. History because it sent a message to future Presidents that they were above the law. Trump got that message loud & clear. The same mistake can't be repeated.
Roger Stone has long been a confidant to failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump, and he managed to weasel a pardon out of Trump in December of 2020 after having been convicted of lying to Congress, obstruction, and witness tampering.
But when Stone again approached members of the Donald’s inner circle in the final days of the Trump administration and begged for a preemptive pardon for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, he came up empty, and it enraged him.
How do we know that? Well, The Daily Beast managed to get a look at an upcoming documentary, and what it shows is Stone letting loose on everyone associated with the ex-president.
After Roger Stone wasn’t granted a post-Jan. 6 pardon, he grew so upset that he suggested fighting Jared Kushner, the man tapped as the point person for handling 11th-hour Trump pardons. In new exclusive footage obtained by The Daily Beast, a yet-to-be-released documentary captured Stone’s meltdown after learning on President Joe Biden’s inauguration day that he wouldn’t be granted a second coveted legal protection, this time to shield from any Jan 6 legal fallout.
“He has 100 security guards. I will have 5,000 security guards. You want to fight. Let’s fight. Fuck you.” (The filmmakers remain unsure of who Stone directed this remark towards.) “Fuck you and your abortionist bitch daughter,” he concluded, referring to Ivanka Trump, according to the filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen who said there was “no doubt” who Stone was ranting about.
Roger Stone calls Ivanka Trump Donald’s “abortionist bitch daughter”
Stone managed to avoid going to prison once, but as more information is uncovered by the House Select Committee investigating January 6, it seems likely that he’ll be facing new charges and won’t be able to count on a pardon.
If anyone belongs behind bars for his lifetime of crime, it’s Roger Stone.
