Media's sleeping on Trump's vow to "sign [insurrectionists'] pardons or commutations on day one"

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...the former president running to assume office again has promised to pardon the people Merrick Garland's DOJ and the FBI apprehended and prosecuted for their assault on the nation's Capitol attempting to halt the certification of votes by Congress in a presidential election.

CNN:

Trump on Friday said he would appoint a task force to review the cases of people he claimed had been unjustly prosecuted related to their political beliefs by the Biden administration, should he win a second term in 2024.

“Tonight, I’m announcing that the moment I win the election, I will appoint a special task force to rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner whose been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration,” Trump said at the Pray Vote Stand Summit hosted by the Family Research Council in Washington, DC.

Trump said he wanted to “study the situation very quickly, and sign their pardons or commutations on day one.”

It is utterly disqualifying, but this treasonous promise been pushed out of the public view and replaced with a repetition of 'unease' and worry over the 'age' of a man who's a mere three-years older than Trump - one of the most legislatively successful presidents in our nation's history as evidenced by the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, the $550 billion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the $280 billion Chips and Science Act, as well as the $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act, the climate and healthcare spending bill.

This press covering the criminally-indicted era Trump has married coverage of politics and pols to ratings and subscriptions like they're impartial referees, as if their only task is just to avoid offending either party's supporters any more than the other.

They've reduced their already vacuous coverage of this election to the equivalent of shouting questions at Pres. Biden they already know the banal answers to, across the graveyard where his family members are buried. Can you imagine that?



What was the actual journalistic value in MTP's Welker asking the multi-felony indicted, former occupant of the WH who she insisted on calling 'Mr. President' about Hunter Biden instead of the myriad issues and scandals surrounding his own children?

Why is the press intent on treating the man indicted on 91 charges as a legitimate presidential candidate? Moreover, why have they just brushed over the fact that Trump just vowed to use his office, if elected, to roil both democracy and our laws by engaging in the very same anti-democratic thuggery that he was impeached and then later arrested for?

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1. I don't think a president can pardon co-conspirators

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2. if Trump said he'd launch nuclear weapons day one

...or that's he'd suspend the constitution upon becoming president again, we wouldn't imagine he'd actually get away with it, but his would still be a dangerously threatening presidency with him openly expressing those ambitions.

I'm from a time where any of his nonsense would be disqualifying, but the media today is intent on establishing his fascism as a legitimate political choice.

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3. They're sleeping on everything. n/t