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Originally Posted by Niamh.
It's ridiculous that they would give one person the power to do something like that, at the very least people guilty of serious or violent crimes should be off the table. What if he decided he wanted to free a serial killer or something, would that be allowed?
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It's a fundamental problem with democracy. At some point it relies on "good faith" and Trump is one who most certainly doesn't abide by anything good faith and never has.
Just to complete the picture a bit, both Clinton and Bush pardoned people serving their own interests rather than those of the country. Nothing like the nonsense pardons from Trump, but they set the precedent. In a similar way, at Trumps certification, several Dems objected to the vote of states at that time, with no basis for doing so. So while Trump has taken things to a new level of absurdity, the dems actually did these things first
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