Phillips suggests Hochul pardon Trump ‘for the good of the country’

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Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) pressed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to pardon former President Trump following his recent conviction in his hush money trial.

“Donald Trump is a serial liar, cheater, and philanderer, a six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy, an instigator of insurrection, and a convicted felon who thrives on portraying himself as a victim,” Phillips said in a post on social platform X Friday.

“@GovKathyHochul should pardon him for the good of the country.”

Because that makes total sense. God forbid Donnie face any fucking consequences. Who gives a shit if his base is pissed let them be. We do not kowtow to fascists.

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.... and this is why we are much better off with Joe Biden as the Democratic Nominee than Dean Phillips.

No. Fuck Dean Phillips for even suggesting it. While we’re discussing it, Nixon should have never been pardoned either. It’s not good for the country. We need justice to be served. We were robbed the first time; let’s not make that mistake again.

The difference is that Nixon was able to secure a pardoned in exchange for fucking off and staying out of the public eye. And to be fair, he held up his end of the deal.

No way is Donnie going to fuck off.

It's funny how this never gets brought up as far as non rich-white-person crime.

Like hey, this guy robbed a liquor store, but for the good of the community I think we should set him free. See? Doesn't work. But for someone reason when it's a much more dangerous type of criminal who's part of the "tribe," everyone starts nodding their heads and saying yeah, the good of the community, that makes perfect logical sense now that you put it that way.

They do it only because it shows the rich elites might actually face consequences of their actions. Red or blue they're part of the same coin and us plebians aren't welcome in their club, so they protect their own.

There is a decent chance this actually happens. If the sentence is actually prison time, that chance goes up to near 100%. Politicians have had this weird sort of pact that they don’t typically go after each other legally when they should (because the implication is it’ll happen to them too), and when they get in trouble they pardon each other. As the late, great George Carlin said: It’s one big club. And you’re not in it.

It'd be better for the country if the felon was sent to prison immediately.

Minnesota, vote this traitorous motherfucker out!

I'm in his district, I'll see what I can do

He's not running for re-election. I hope that the district can stay blue. Deano was the first democrat to win that seat in decades. Fuck Ramstad.

Fuck off, Dean Phillips. We had a dipshit pardon Nixon and now look where we are. We didn't have enough hangings after the Civil War and now look where we are. Fuck a pardon.

Fucking hell, I thought this was talking about some Republican named Phillips. The dude is a Democrat?

"Democrat"

Probably a Democrat like Kirsten Sinema was.

I don't know what happened to him but I lived in his district and he was a great breath of fresh air as the first democrat to hold that seat in decades. The NW burbs of the Twin Cities have shifted bluer and I hope they keep the seat.

Good of the country ? What would that do to help America exactly ?

I have this other weird idea. What if like, politicians don't commit crimes instead? And if they do commit a crime, they go to jail. How about that?

Dean Philips can suck a raw turd from Trumps ass any time he likes.

Out of line, but you're not wrong

I’m not out of line. Dean is a loose cannon and should either be restrained properly or jettisoned.

Yes... I too think we should pardon the criminal who has spent his whole life never experiencing consequences for his actions.

But I was assured that this guy was our only chance to resist Biden because Biden was the guy doin a fascist takeover, and we had to nominate someone else instead, who wouldn’t be a fascist. Like Phillips.

Now I’m all perplexed about it. Surely the people saying that wouldn’t have been lying for some duplicitous reason

That would actually be a kickass tweet if only it ended in /s or an eye-roll emoji.

From the other posts it apparently isn't sarcasm and I'm so confused

I have no idea who this Phillips guy is so must be missing some context.

Democratic representative from Minnesota.

Him being a Democrat and the long list of horribleness followed by 'he should be pardoned' is why I initially assumed it was sarcasm.

Apparently Phillips is just a moron.

“You think pardoning is stupid?” Phillips, also a former presidential candidate, said in a Saturday post on X. “Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid. (Election charges are entirely different.) It’s energizing his base, generating record sums of campaign cash, and will likely result in an electoral boost.”

Nixon had to resign to get a pardon

Hm, interesting, if Ronald McDonald first drops out of the race (and politics altogether) maybe then he can have a pardon.

The only reason I'd accept a pardon is if he drops out of the race and leaves the country permanently.

And eats a whole bag of fresh horse shite on live TV

Why not fucking a pig? Make the Black Mirror S01E01 come to life!

Enjoy your cush consulting job for big oil. "We just need you to do one thing for us, Deaner..."

His family owns Philipps Distilling (yes, the people that make the lime green vodka we used to put in mountain dew bottles in high school). He'll be fine without the big oil consulting job.

I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve never seen Dean Phillips and Ron DeSantis in the same room. Anybody know what’s up with that?

Rep. Dean Phillips can go fuck himself with the business end of a rake. What kind of dipshit asshole would admit he's all that shit and then says pardon him?

It's VITAL that we let the American People know that the President IS above the Law and can do WHATEVER HE WANTS!

The candidate that ran to Biden's right wants a pardon for Trump? Imagine that.

I mean, if he was sentenced to prison AND THEN won the election he would have a point. I didn't think the executive branch could get much lower than interns signing things Trump forgot to sign and him hawking beans on the resolute desk, but if Trump has to run it from prison, we would be declaring war based on what Buba in the next cell tells him to do.

"Everyone on the jailhouse block is saying..."

No, he would not have a fucking point. If Americans want to vote for an incarcerated felon for president, he should be required to do the job from his jail cell.