It's OK when the crimes are fake or victimless.
You mean like lying about your drug use on a gun application, or evading taxes that you already paid back?
It's not OK when the crimes are real with real victims.
Like inciting a mob attack on the US Capitol that resulted in 140 Capitol police officers getting their heads bashed in along with the death of one of the rioters?
Also lying to the public in order to cover up you stealing from the public is not OK.
You mean like running a fake university or stealing from your own charity?
That's the algorithm I'm using.
Clearly not
And when Trump pardons people who committed crimes on his own behalf that’s also fine
So what do you make about the time period the pardon for Hunter was for?
What do you make of Trump pardoning people who were convicted for crimes they committed on his own behalf? You forgot to address that.
The time period for Hunter makes sense given Biden’s stated reasons for issuing it. The republicans have been obsessed with Hunter for absolutely no reason for the past 4 years. He remains the only private citizen (as in person who never held a position of power) to ever have a special counsel go appointed to go after him. His genitals were literally plastered on the screen in a congressional committee investigative hearing, and the gun charges he was prosecuted on have never been prosecuted as a stand alone offense. Ever. Republicans are obsessed with him, and since Trump just named the guy who publicly stated he would use the DOJ to go after Trumps political opponents as his FBI director, it makes perfect sense that he would take the time period republicans zeroed in on off the table.
Trump never swore off pardons.
So therefore we don't hold Trump to any standards when assessing his egregious abuses of the pardon power. That standard only applies to Biden and the democrats. Got it.
Trump never implied that lawfare was made up. Biden and friends did. They're the hypocrites here. They're the ones who expected everyone to laugh away "lawfare" as a silly concept nobody could take seriously.
Now they believe in it, they believe in it only when the people they don't trust have the gun.
No, they believe in it when the totality of the evidence logically concludes that it is real.
But even in that statement I'm granting you too much. What Biden said was absolutely correct; Hunter was prosecuted only because his last name was Biden. I already explained why above. That isn't warfare, that's an overreach of a prosecutor making a name for himself. Lawfare is when it's organizational. It's when the orders are coming from the top, and we both know neither Joe Biden or Merrick Garland was orchestrating this.
There was no lawfare in this administration nor was there in Trump's first term. His second term however... He's made clear it's actually coming. The fact that Trump appointed the man who publicly stated he'd go after Trump's political rivals to run the FBI has made that undeniably clear.
You can't have it both ways.
Either the system is corruptible or it isn't
Corruptible? Of course it is. Is it actually corrupt? That's a different question.
The first thing reason advises is to look at precedent. That is precisely what you people (and you in particular Double R) didn't give a shit about.
Provide one relevant example here
It is unclear how far Trump & friends will twist and distort the law, how little they will care about precedent; but I won't be weeping tears of blood if they do because...
Because you're an unprincipled hypocrite as this statement here demonstrates.
