4mo ago

Trump pardons crypto exchange for money laundering, possibly preventing them from even being investigated again

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4mo ago

Trump makes history by pardoning a corporation

thehill.com /opinion/criminal-justice/5224229-trump-makes-history-by-pardoning-a-corporation/

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4mo ago

Trump makes history by pardoning a corporation

thehill.com /opinion/criminal-justice/5224229-trump-makes-history-by-pardoning-a-corporation/

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Presidents pardoning corporations is such a fucked precedent, I don't even
- Pardoning crimes is a fucked precedent. When someone is found guilty in a fair trail it can be overruled on the whims of a single person? The US has the strangest idea of justice.
  
  Got to have some safety net in place in case the courts erroneously decide to rule in favor of the poors on occasion.
- Well it’s a fucked president, so what can you expect.
On the other hand, if a future administration wants to get around that pardon, they can just snatch these people off the street and throw them on a plane to another country to be locked up in a hellish concentration camp. Then when lawyers point out that they were pardoned the government can just say "whoopsie" and ignore them.
- Waste of money. If the bill of rights doesn't hold water then we might as well do the humane thing and slit their throats in a field. Leave their bodies for the vultures. Don't have to waste bullets or dig holes. No reason to kill the environment shipping people off.
- Though I follow the spirit of your message, doing so would only validate the treasonous behavior and ratchet up the madness. There is nothing lawful about so many things happening today, but we must do better than to stoop to the same lawless tactics.
  
  Unfortunately dealing with these people in a way that respects the law would not get anywhere. By then these people will be likely very rich and law has a bias towards under punishing (relatively) the rich.
These people should hang out, maybe get to mordore or be head at something.
Molly White: Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal

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