Phew! America has dodged another bullet, ladies and gentlemen! And it’s all thanks to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson including the “Trump Exception” in the US Constitution. The Trump Exception explicitly states that any rights, freedoms, privileges, amendments, rules, regulations, emanations and even penumbras can just be tossed out the window when you’re talking about Donald Trump or his associates.
The latest Trump Exception that we’ve just learned about pertains to presidential pardons. If Donald Trump pardoned someone – it doesn’t count!
That’s what the Department of Justice just announced when it argued before a federal judge that it would not be dismissing its bogus charges against Steve Bannon. Sure, Donald Trump extended a full pardon to Steve Bannon on January 20, 2021. But that doesn’t count! Trump Exception!
You might have been thinking that pardons and commutations of sentences were some sort of special, plenary power reserved solely for the President of the United States in the US Constitution. Yes, that’s normally true. But not under the Trump Exception!
As you probably recall, Paul Manafort was sent to prison under the Trump Exception a few years ago, for not filling out a piece of paperwork with the IRS. That was under an obscure federal rule that’s never been enforced since the 1960s, but under the Trump Exception, Manafort went to prison for it.
Likewise, Gen. Mike Flynn struggled for years with the false accusation that he had lied to the FBI. Even after the Justice Department dismissed the case against Flynn, the federal judge decided that he would act as the prosecutor to keep the case going. Trump Exception!
Sure, that had never happened in any federal case in US history before. But desperate times call for throwing the entire rule of law and all norms and traditions out the window. Donald Trump is just too icky to allow his associates to somehow go unpunished. Just ask the QAnon shaman who’s rotting in federal prison right now for singing a song in the US Senate chambers last January.
The Department of Justice is claiming that Steve Bannon defrauded donors of the We Build the Wall Foundation, by collecting a salary for his work with the organization. That was the wildly successful private-sector fundraising effort that built several miles of impenetrable new walls along our southern border. As for the “fraud” that Bannon is falsely accused of committing, it’s totally absurd.
Every single person on planet earth understands that when they make a contribution to a non-profit or a PAC that part of the funds are used to pay staff salaries. The DOJ prosecutors are claiming that because the We Build the Wall Foundation said that 100% of contributions were going toward construction of the wall, every donor was somehow too stupid to understand that that always means “minus expenses for employee salaries and expenses.” So, the charges were bogus from the very beginning.
But now the Department of Justice says that even though Donald Trump pardoned Steve Bannon, they’re going to keep the case going anyway. Wouldn’t want any uppity Trump supporters to think that they’re in charge of their own destiny and have the power to vote for candidates that The Swamp does not like.
Obviously, I’m being sarcastic about the so-called “Trump Exception” and there is no such thing in the Constitution. Everyone should realize that the Department of Justice is deadly serious: They plan to challenge the constitutionality of presidential pardons, based on the fact that they don’t like Donald Trump.
Prosecutors argued, “The pardon granted to Bannon is not a basis to dismiss the Indictment against him.”
Uh… yes, it is. Presidential pardon powers are plenary – meaning they are not subject to review or approval from any other body, any department, any court or any other branch of government. It’s one of the few “plenary” powers that presidents actually have, just as the US Congress has plenary power over interstate commerce. No one can step in and say that a pardon is invalid for any reason – which is why a lot of pardons throughout the years have been protested, but never overturned.
What’s most concerning about the fact that the DOJ is suddenly claiming pardons from Trump are not plenary, is the fact that the judge didn’t simply laugh at the prosecutors and throw tomatoes at them. The judge said he’ll need two weeks to make a decision on whether a pardon actually counts, if it was granted by Donald Trump.
Joe Biden and his entire Administration don’t own an ounce of sanity or a sliver of Common Sense, not too mention honesty.
fuck biden and is cohort commies.Trump will keep them scared for decades
agreed. I could say worse but the point is good enough and my god says to forgive them for they know not what t hey do. To destroy the USA is their goal.
If we really wanted to get back our power? We’d take the government and limit them back to the beginning powers granted by the Constitution. [Disputes between the states/foreign affairs only.] Let the states do the rest if they choose to but the laws of the lands we live in have been subverted/perverted for the power to control ALL the people of the USA/the same goes for the world too. KILL the USA / destroy the world.. ONE WORLD POWER AND LAWS make ALL slaves….
I would like to go back in history to see who democrat presidents pardoned . Might be interesting reading.
Biden Hunter might need a pardon some day If GOD himself dont give him is own judgement. You are setting a president that would allow a pardon for your own son (which you give) to be overridden JUST like the one Steve Bannon Recieved from TRUMP. WALK ON THISTIPPY TOED because it also might mean you hanning your own son!
Just goes to show, now that the democrats are in power you can throw out the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence. Welcome to the world of socialist, communist, and left-wing radicals. It’s only going to get worse. Far far worse.
Agreed!
Only if we LET the bastards do it.
LETS NOT FORGET WHEN BANNON GOT ARRESTED HE WAS ON THE LARGE LUXURY YACHT OF A VERY WEALTHY CHINESE BUSINESS MAN.WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?THAT WAS KEPT QUIET? WHY WAS HE CHUMING AROUND WITH THAT GUY? I’LL BET IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH BIG MONEY.
You are probably right!, And if so, I would bet it would be something that would take the 10% percent away from the Big Guy.
If President Trump looked at the facts and decided to pardon Bannon then I’d say the Chinese man was not a corrupting factor. Guarantee that President Trump knew who the Chinese businessman’s identity and background before pardoning Bannon.
It was probably the man who is fighting against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Has a rap video and is seen on Bannon’s show, “Warroom: Pandemic”.
The utterly criminal Communist/Democrat Party will soon be arresting and imprisoning “dissidents” all over the country. Dissidents, you know, anyone who disagrees with them. And law enforcement will “just follow orders” and play along while the Red Judges do their thing by rubber stamping the predetermined verdicts.
Don’t laugh, it’s coming. It’s already happening! Don’t be at all surprised if they’re reading our comments all over the net and putting us on their “lists”.
Oh, but no worries. Our brave defenders and the GOP will save us! LOLOLOLOL!!!!
Very drastic action is necessary now.Not more talk.Is anyone else sick of this insanity yet?Our country that millions of patriots died to keep is being taken without a shot being fired to protect it.Supreme court?
It will be up to citizens or it’s over.
Unless and until this kangaroo a$$ investigation of Steve Bannon is subsequently reviewed by SCOTUS for adjudication, the swamp denizens of the Deep State will ride roughshod over Trump’s associates just because they CAN! The Biden “Presidency” is both FARCE and TRAVESTY, and is “progressive” only in the sense that everything either is getting or will get progressively WORSE! The time is rapidly approaching when a taste of “Western Justice” may be required to restore some sense of equilibrium in the land!
Anyone ever hear of double jeopardy?
Of course, DEMONRATS are campaigning war against any PRESIDENT Trump supporter from the voter to the political. They are doing it in insidious ways and means which are rearing their ugly heads daily: open borders, bowing to other countries, releasing criminals from jails, paying criminals and illegals 2.1 BILLION, housing ILLEGALS in hotels costing us $86 million, increasing gas prices because of DEMONRAT actions/policies, price increases – inflation is hitting if you go to the supermarket or buy products, etc., etc..
As for Bannon, he is powerful has a following, and he speaks out. DEMONRATS must have total compliance/acquiescence/adoration. Not from us – we refuse!!
& the judge in this case is obviously a OBUMMER judge.
Tyrants beware that you do not take so much from your populace that they have nothing left to lose or nothing left to live for as they will certainly find something to die for. Nathan Hale said it best.
Since the Obama era l have no respect 4 the DOJ or FBI. They’re both rogue agencies that answer 2 no 1. They want U they will build a fake case and pass it off B4 a federal judge as legit. Congress should disolve them and create a professional agency that doesn.t answer 2 King & Queen Obama.
For the first time in our history there is a government in power that does not just need to be defeated at the next election but must be removed now by national uprising or by secession and partition of the dying First American Republic. To use a Roman analogy, this time we are not dealing with mediocrities or underachievers at the level of Tiberius, Claudius or Domitian; this one is like Caligula or Nero or Commodus a catastrophe of the type that the Praetorian Guard used to have to deal with eventually. No matter what The Dotard does there are enough misguided and corrupt Americans who support him to establish and run (at least for a while) a Third World marxist dictatiorship, so we might as well give them the blue states where they are already gauleiters and try ourselves to re-establish a free country in the rest. Down with the dictatorship! Biden (and Obammunists) delenda est!
It’s time to disband the DOJ and FBI. These Agencies no longer serve the American Citizens, they serve themselves and the Democrat National Communist Criminal Party (DNCCP).