Trump Pardoning Criminals

[Hymie]

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the president is immune from prosecution for criminal acts.

 

Shocking as that might be, apparently (very much underreported) Trump is pardoning criminals for no other reason than they are his loyal supporters.

 

This case in point is of a former Las Vegas City council woman, who solicited donations towards a memorial statue honouring slain Las Vegas police officers – but was found guilty of misappropriating the money collected, spending it on amongst other things plastic surgery for herself and to fund her daughter’s wedding (none of the money she collected went to the memorial statue).  Apparently she was looking at a long custodial sentence for her crime, until she was pardoned by Trump before the court could announce her sentence.

 

Can you imagine anything like this happening in the UK?

 

 

[mushroom25]

no. the Royal Prerogative of Mercy is exercised by the monarch on the advice of his ministers, using a somewhat cumbersome process. although in theory this prerogative could be exercised by the monarch on their own initiative, in practice that hasn't been attempted for 200 years, since a threat by his Home Secretary to resign forced George IV to retract. In any case, the creation of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (1997), created an alternative and more effective route for review of possible flawed decisions in criminal prosecutions.

should the UK ever become a republic, those charged with writing the new constitution should be encouraged to ensure the executive isn't granted unilateral powers of any description.

[douglas9401]

No 'flawed decision' in the case of the pneumatic fraudster though.

[Sinead_O]

Who else would a President pardon, apart from those convicted of offences?

[douglas9401]

Perhaps those wrongly or unsafely convicted rather than holidaymakers using stolen cash and other criminals.

Of course he's known for looking after his own like all gang leaders.

[Sinead_O]

I'm guessing he believes they're wrongly or unsafely convicted.  Such is the power of the Presidency. #hunterbiden

[Old_Geezer]

Well he's been trying to pardon Putin for some time now, or so it seems.

[Mozz71]

Let's see, she's blonde with a big rack. I'm sure that wouldn't be enough for Donnie to pardon her though. 🙄

[sandyRoe]

You could understand him pardoning those he called out on Jan 6.

But criminals, feathering their own nests, is something very different.  The Donald showing again his disregard for the rule of law.