Saving Democracy Is More Important Than Putting Donald Trump in Jail. Here's How :President Biden Can Eviscerate Trump in the Debates.
In President Biden's opening statement he should PARDON Donald Trump for the four charges for his conduct following the 2020 presidential election through the January 6 Capitol attack: conspiracy to defraud the United States under Title 18 of the United States Code, obstructing an official proceeding and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding under the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, and conspiracy against rights under the Enforcement Act of 1870.
A president's power to pardon is near absolute. SCOTUS hasn't even ruled that a president can't pardon himself/herself.
President Biden should pardon Trump regarding those four charges and state the reasons why, preferably in a 3 1/2 to 4 minute opening statement:
The U.S. Supreme Court, with its unconscionable actions, has essentially prevented a federal trial related to charges against Mr. Trump from the 2020 presidential election through the January 6th Capitol attack from being completed in time before the November election, thus depriving the American people from weighing an outcome in that case into their calculus for their presidential vote.
If Mr. Trump were to prevail in the election, he's surely going to order the Justice Department to end the prosecution of his case.
Quite frankly, should I prevail in the election, I was intending to pardon Mr. Trump anyway in the hope that we can then start to heal the divisions in our country.
And, finally, the American people need to hear in this debate - tonight - what Mr. Trump did and did not do on January 6th, 2021 that was so dangerous, so despicable, so outrageous that it needs to be discussed - now, before the election. Mr. Trump wants to blame me for ordering his prosecution. I did not. The Justice Department acted independently to file charges. But discussing it tonight is far more important than a finding of his guilt or innocent.
We need to discuss why he refuses to denounce those who wanted to literally hang the then-sitting Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence. Why he calls those who brutally attacked and murdered Capitol Hill police officers and soiled the halls of Congress "patriots." How a person seeking the highest office in the land, the most powerful office on this planet, constantly attacks judges, juries, court employees, witnesses, reporters, poll workers. Who constantly denigrates women.
Who made accusations that the father of a United States Senator, Republican Ted Cruz of Texas, helped to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963 - making up that bald face lie in order to smear his opponent in order to help win the Republican nomination in 2016. Someone who was convicted of sexual assault on a woman - and who then continued with character assassination on her even after being ordered by the courts to pay restitution. Who was been found in contempt of court multiple times. Who was found guilty of falsifying business records for his financial gain. Who claims that a president has absolute immunity while in office, even to the point... get this, even to the point that he can't be prosecuted for ordering the assassination of his political opponents. That's what he had his attorneys argued before the United States Supreme Court.
Ladies and gentlemen, those aren't the actions of a person to entrust with the presidency of the United States. Those are the actions of a despot. There's a reason why Mr. Trump once re-tweeted a quote by Benito Mussolini: "It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep." It's because Mr. Trump sees himself as that lion, just as Mussolini did. To roar out commands. To pounce on the old, the frail, the young and the weak. To belittle anyone who disagrees with him and to then send out his thugs to make death threats and commit violence.
That's not who we are as a nation. We are far better than that. Our Founding Fathers revolted against that type of despotism.
But I can't talk about Mr. Trump's actions tonight without prejudicing the case against him. Therefore, I am using my power under the United States Constitution to pardon Mr. Trump for the conspiracy to defraud the United States under Title 18 of the United States Code, obstructing an official proceeding and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding under the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, and conspiracy against rights under the Enforcement Act of 1870.
Make no mistake. This pardon is unequivocal, unchallengeable and final. Before stepping onto this stage, I signed an order directing the Justice Department to withdraw these charges against Mr. Trump. Prosecution against others who are so charged will continue and it will be up to Special Counsel Jack Smith as to whether or not Mr. Trump will be called as a witness in those cases. But, for Mr. Trump, he is no longer a defendant against those charges.
A president's power to pardon is near absolute. SCOTUS hasn't even ruled that a president can't pardon himself/herself.
President Biden should pardon Trump regarding those four charges and state the reasons why, preferably in a 3 1/2 to 4 minute opening statement:
The U.S. Supreme Court, with its unconscionable actions, has essentially prevented a federal trial related to charges against Mr. Trump from the 2020 presidential election through the January 6th Capitol attack from being completed in time before the November election, thus depriving the American people from weighing an outcome in that case into their calculus for their presidential vote.
If Mr. Trump were to prevail in the election, he's surely going to order the Justice Department to end the prosecution of his case.
Quite frankly, should I prevail in the election, I was intending to pardon Mr. Trump anyway in the hope that we can then start to heal the divisions in our country.
And, finally, the American people need to hear in this debate - tonight - what Mr. Trump did and did not do on January 6th, 2021 that was so dangerous, so despicable, so outrageous that it needs to be discussed - now, before the election. Mr. Trump wants to blame me for ordering his prosecution. I did not. The Justice Department acted independently to file charges. But discussing it tonight is far more important than a finding of his guilt or innocent.
We need to discuss why he refuses to denounce those who wanted to literally hang the then-sitting Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence. Why he calls those who brutally attacked and murdered Capitol Hill police officers and soiled the halls of Congress "patriots." How a person seeking the highest office in the land, the most powerful office on this planet, constantly attacks judges, juries, court employees, witnesses, reporters, poll workers. Who constantly denigrates women.
Who made accusations that the father of a United States Senator, Republican Ted Cruz of Texas, helped to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963 - making up that bald face lie in order to smear his opponent in order to help win the Republican nomination in 2016. Someone who was convicted of sexual assault on a woman - and who then continued with character assassination on her even after being ordered by the courts to pay restitution. Who was been found in contempt of court multiple times. Who was found guilty of falsifying business records for his financial gain. Who claims that a president has absolute immunity while in office, even to the point... get this, even to the point that he can't be prosecuted for ordering the assassination of his political opponents. That's what he had his attorneys argued before the United States Supreme Court.
Ladies and gentlemen, those aren't the actions of a person to entrust with the presidency of the United States. Those are the actions of a despot. There's a reason why Mr. Trump once re-tweeted a quote by Benito Mussolini: "It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep." It's because Mr. Trump sees himself as that lion, just as Mussolini did. To roar out commands. To pounce on the old, the frail, the young and the weak. To belittle anyone who disagrees with him and to then send out his thugs to make death threats and commit violence.
That's not who we are as a nation. We are far better than that. Our Founding Fathers revolted against that type of despotism.
But I can't talk about Mr. Trump's actions tonight without prejudicing the case against him. Therefore, I am using my power under the United States Constitution to pardon Mr. Trump for the conspiracy to defraud the United States under Title 18 of the United States Code, obstructing an official proceeding and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding under the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, and conspiracy against rights under the Enforcement Act of 1870.
Make no mistake. This pardon is unequivocal, unchallengeable and final. Before stepping onto this stage, I signed an order directing the Justice Department to withdraw these charges against Mr. Trump. Prosecution against others who are so charged will continue and it will be up to Special Counsel Jack Smith as to whether or not Mr. Trump will be called as a witness in those cases. But, for Mr. Trump, he is no longer a defendant against those charges.
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