The pardons aren't just retroactive. They're preemptive. The deal is, those criminals, vandals, and traitors are already immunized from further prosecution, and standing by as ordered for the literal act of the stochastic violence that Trump can order easily. They can take as targets anyone Trump feels is a threat--Bishop Mariann Budde, …
The pardons aren't just retroactive. They're preemptive. The deal is, those criminals, vandals, and traitors are already immunized from further prosecution, and standing by as ordered for the literal act of the stochastic violence that Trump can order easily. They can take as targets anyone Trump feels is a threat--Bishop Mariann Budde, for example, who Trump has de-legitimized as a person and as clergy. She's already being attacked by Trump's Christian Nationalist brownshirts. Under sentence by Trump and by them, she's not safe physically, and (God forbid) were she hurt by the Trumpist thugs, Trump himself would weigh in to the same effect he did when he countenanced violence against Mike Pence: it's common sense.
As has been shouted from the rooftops already, let's shout it again: the pardoned thugs are an instant on-call violent mob awaiting the call. Trump need not ever make it explicit that he wants them to do violence--that would make him culpable. All he needs to so is suggest that if violence happens, it's common sense.
Note as well: we depend on the FBI to find and stop this kind of outlaw conspiracy. Trump wants to blind the FBI.
The pardons aren't just retroactive. They're preemptive. The deal is, those criminals, vandals, and traitors are already immunized from further prosecution, and standing by as ordered for the literal act of the stochastic violence that Trump can order easily. They can take as targets anyone Trump feels is a threat--Bishop Mariann Budde, for example, who Trump has de-legitimized as a person and as clergy. She's already being attacked by Trump's Christian Nationalist brownshirts. Under sentence by Trump and by them, she's not safe physically, and (God forbid) were she hurt by the Trumpist thugs, Trump himself would weigh in to the same effect he did when he countenanced violence against Mike Pence: it's common sense.
As has been shouted from the rooftops already, let's shout it again: the pardoned thugs are an instant on-call violent mob awaiting the call. Trump need not ever make it explicit that he wants them to do violence--that would make him culpable. All he needs to so is suggest that if violence happens, it's common sense.
Note as well: we depend on the FBI to find and stop this kind of outlaw conspiracy. Trump wants to blind the FBI.