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Julie A Thompson's avatar

Next week, the Prosecutors will have the opportunity to re-direct their questions back to Michael Cohen and they will cover all the issues that Cohen has been hit with. They will acknowledge that Cohen's prison sentence was to protect Trump. They will address all of the cirticism that Trump's lawyers threw at him. Everything will be above board. And no, pardoning Trump would destroy our nation. His crimes are so serious that a pardon is ridiculous. Nothing good would come out of it.

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Jonathan Reiss's avatar

Wrong reason to criticize Romney's pardon suggestion.

"However, critics argue that pardoning Trump would alienate Democratic voters and fail to win over Trump's loyal base."

If you are going to do a realpolitik analysis of a pardon, Romney may be right. Yes, it would not win over Trump's loyal base and would alienate Democratic voter, but the Democratic voters would still vote for Biden and this analysis ignores an important group, the "reasonable" Republicans who like Romney and hate Trump but are not sold on voting for Biden.

So, the conclusion that "its practical implications and political ramifications suggest it would be a bad decision. " is not clear.

The reason that pardoning Trump is a terrible idea is NOT the "political ramifications" but the principled, moral and legal ones. It would continue to deny the principal that NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. We shouldn't even be discussing it from the frame of "would this help Biden win?"

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