Nope. Pardoning Nixon was a mistake that should not be repeated.
Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Giving him a general pardon and not for specifics was the mistake. Alternate history for Nixon going to trial or any other course other than the one he took is a wild ride. As is most points in history, but it would have been an ugly America, so Ford's spoken motive had some merit. Whether Reagan makes it in seems to be a debated point, depending on how long the Nixon trial(s) go.
YouTalkinToMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But he was not a crook, someone said?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Then that someone has slept in school, or had an American education.
silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
I think the country needs nuremburg trials
jackal@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Hear, hear! We need to have an absolute fuckton of trials for people involved in this blatantly corrupt administration.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
#GuillotineParty
Aeao@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ford shouldn’t have pardoned Nixon.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Nixon looks like an angel compared to Presidents after him.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even if Trump copied Nixon by resigning early so Vance could pardon him, he’d still be facing various state charges. (And he could always be extradited outside the US for war crimes.)
Space_Cowboy92@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck no.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Fuck no
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The next president should arrest every other president and conscribe them to slave labor until the nation’s school lunch debts are repaid.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Does this include digging most of them up and propping them up on trial in the manner of Pope Formosus?
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I think that’s up to the president, sounds stinky
dan1101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And private prisons all closed.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Replaced with The People’s Prison where I can throw things at all the incarcerated presidents like a horribly mismanaged zoo
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Should they or would they? Should they? Of course not. Will they ? Of course because no POTUS wants to set precedent of accountability.
whoneedsgravy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s like that thing in the drive thru, where the person in the car ahead paid for your coffee. The President pardons the president behind him so the next president can pardon him.
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Bro what next president
pbhj@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You should drop him into Iran to face punishment from the Iranian families whose children he bombed at school.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There ain’t enough of him to go around. Willing to negotiate sending a musk, hegseth, or thiel though.
fratermus@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
No.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
NO. Pardons shouldn’t cover unrepentant criminals who know what they’re doing.
Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Of course not. He should send Trump and his sons to Guantanimo.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck no.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m sure of only one thing, the rest of the world won’t pardon you so easily you fucktards
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He doesn’t need one. SCOTUS said it’s all legal.
stoly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ford was a loyalist who put party over country. We needed a reckoning and that never happened. If it had happened, you’d have found a much different Reagan and Trump presidency.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
No
Toasticus@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Hard to pardon someone who hasn’t like…been convicted or impeached yet. For some reason.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
except that is literally what Ford did to Nixon, and pardons aren’t a thing for impeachment anyway (for US federal offenses)
Aeao@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I do think you have to admit to the crime tho. I could be wrong but accepting a pardon means you agree you were guilty I believe.
Thorry@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The whole pardon thing should be abolished ASAP!
stoly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The pardon isn’t the problem, it’s who gets elected. The power of the pardon has existed for a thousand years or so in English Common Law.
Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Well no, but the next president will likely be Republican and will surely do it. We can't vote them out anymore. Our last chance was 2024. We have to overthrow them. If we do that, then we should hang Trump.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He won’t live long enough to face consequences. Let him pass in infamy as the most corrupt ever. Let him be featured only in history about how fragile democracy can be.
And dish out justice for his minions and sycophants, everyone who violated the constitution, broke laws or enriched themselves. Especially including his family
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, but they will.
It’s a big club, we ain’t in it, and their class solidarity is absolute.
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No. We need to make examples.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The next “president” will quite likely be named trump.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
If they run Hillary or Harris again, you’re probably right.
Jon Stewart should be president. And Mark Kelly should be his VP.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Man I don’t even give a damn anymore. This is what its always been they used to just keep appearances up. It’s a circus of our suffering for the aristocracy.
Fuck Trump. Fuck the next president too. Fuck them all. None of them give a fuck about us or our children.
We should start over.
x00z@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No. The correct course of action is a public hanging.
Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If he is pardoned, we will get Nixon 3.0 but somehow dumber and more corrupt.
peacepath@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is there a chance the next president of the US be neither republican nor democrat (for the parties labels)?
Triumph@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
We got Trump in no small part because Nixon was pardoned.
Natanael@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
14A3 disqualification, impeachment, prosecution for crimes against humanity, put him against the wall