Chris Hayes breaks down the 20 pardons and commutations Donald Trump issued on Tuesday, including two people involved in the Mueller inquiry, three Republican congressmen, and four ex-Blackwater guards. Aired on 12/22/2020.
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Convicted Congressmen, Killers Of Iraqi Civilians: A Closer Look At Those Trump Just Pardoned
This is like Simon Phoenix thawing out his favorite criminals from the cryo-penitentiary so he could stage his coup. Don’t we have a 25th amendment?
@Lucius Kiirus they like pain for the slaves – they are sick people
@Trollslayer – The vast majority of those were people who had been given outrageous sentences for relatively minor drug crimes, not his convicted criminal buddies.
@wickednwyld People obviously don’t care. When Trump does something bad/wrong, they simply compare him to “Obama” to justify his actions without going into granular detail.
@Auntie Pha I want potatoes and vodka!
@Tom Senft 😀
Trump needs more criminals and crooks to be on his side, so they can commit more crimes.
@Trollslayer You do realize that the majority were people convicted of drug offenses during the war on drugs period where the mandatory sentencing was just Xtreme.
This sounds like Batman, the movie where Trump plays the joker and his friends are the penguin, the Riddler, cat woman etc.
Hoh wow
https://youtu.be/zFJ2AN_CZH8
oh, You don’t need to praise Trump for that ’cause every president is corrupt.
He is not rewarding good behavior, or loyalty of these people… he is doing this so he can ask them a “favor though” at some future point… they wall all OWE him now .. He is amassing an army .. make no mistake. There needs to be a TON of new laws to protect this country from criminal presidents.
No Law No Order, Georgia PLEASE Vote!!!!!
@Lucius Kiirus Congress already drafted and passed the bill. You’re right, I’d love some extra money to stay afloat, but major revisions aren’t easy add-ons. It’s billions more that the GOP won’t allow. Plus there’s a government shutdown looming, so Trump’s unpredictable decisions have now effectively stalled this bill for weeks.
Blue wave moving through Georgia 💙💙💙
@Trollslayer Obama pardoned, granted clemency to a ton of people. Per Wikipedia they were mostly people who got long sentences for drugs during “war on drugs” era but I don’t know who else.
Trumps pardons seem self serving and to play to his base. Pardoning mass murderers who killed civilians in Iraq is particularly disgusting. I’d like to turn Trump over to the families of those civilians who were killed so they could decide what to do with him. Hopefully it would be slow.
@Trollslayer i agreed pardon is good. but pardon your own party member, what message will that say?
In February 2012 , Wang Lijun asked American embassy for asylum. He had a name list of the CCP corruption. He later was handed over to Xi. Xi later became President of the CCP and used the name list to catch all the opposition party. Why America did not protect Wang?Who is the USA president and Vice President at that time? Who is the Secretary of State? Why America help Xi? Chinese knew this relationship eight years ago. We don’t have to wait the Hunter Biden hard drive. This is sad that still have 70% of Democrats did not know what they voted for. Yes, included you.
https://youtu.be/VgUjecJtcOY
Overstock CEO
https://youtu.be/biLECGZrKA4
Democrat donate trillion and millions dollars to foreign countries and illegal immigrants.
The Joker is opening the cages in Arkham as he leaves!
@Trollslayer you still mad? Any of them convicted war criminals?
@Trollslayer It’s not the quantity that matters, it’s the type of criminals. Trump just pardoned 4 murderers….let that sink in. I remember 4 years ago when Republicans would have been up in arms over this.
Clearly he’s selecting his gang for 2024; quid pro quo.
funny comment
That’s funny.
War criminals who killed innocent civilians
Embezzler who cheated on his wife
Cheater who got rich on insider trading
Yup, sounds exactly like who you’d expect to get pardoned from the worst president in history.
@Trollslayer Sounds like your infected with the “Whataboutism” virus.
Only the best…
@Claude Boily Good one. Right on spot.
@Trollslayer and the evidence of that?
@Trollslayer
1- the type of the crime … not the quantity.
2- whataboutism is very well known Trump supporters technique … and u r using it here.
3- since 2008, the best GOP and Trumpists opinion about Obama that he is bad … now u r saying Trump is as bad as Obama.
4- change your name … you are Troll urself … trolling every person commenting on the video … so a liar Trumpist … I don’t think this new.
is gonna get worst. this is what happens when the ignorant vote for an evil party. Jesus help us.
@Mary Rendon you are a blind moron.
He isn’t evil. Biden is. Nancy and Cumo want you to go into debt so they can send millions overseas to other organizations and countries while they give you 600 bucks…tell me who is evil again? Nancy let the relief bill sit on her desk while we have US citizens sleeping outside in the cold because they lost everything so Trump wouldn’t claim a victory…can you explain evil or are you confused as to what evil really is?
@Mary Rendon Trolls and hard core right wingers have sh*te for brains.
@Jody Hunt Q much?
@Goof Ball The evangelicals tell us god ensured dump was elected. I guess that’s just a variation of your comment, that is: god does not exist either.
He killed 17 people and got away with it? My god this is messed up at a massive level
@Trollslayer What do you like most about Trump, how he’s intentionally spreading COVID while lying about it’s lethality, how he snatches babies from their mothers at the border, how he’s destroyed our economy, how he fawns over dictators, his penchant for sexual assault, or the fact that he’s a literal nazi who’s trying to stage a coup?
Toh wow
https://youtu.be/zFJ2AN_CZH8
Trump’s horrible handling of the Covid-19 pandemic imho led to the deaths of over 300,000 innocent American.
@Trollslayer
Get lost. How many times are you gonna copy/paste your stupid comment?
@Trollslayer I love stupid people like you
“You killed someone? How about a pardon, there you go”. Trump is such a monster.
@Trollslayer It’s not the quantity that matters, it’s the type of criminals. Trump just pardoned 4 murderers….let that sink in. I remember 4 years ago when Republicans would have been up in arms over this.
Roh wow
https://youtu.be/zFJ2AN_CZH8
This reflects Trump cruel racism. Killing people in a massmurder in middle east seems to be no crime to Trump. Because he sees non white people not as humans of the same value as white ones.
You know nothing
@Pam M and your a pillar of intellect and wisdom???. Get a grip, get some help, grow up or FO.
Instead of draining the swamp, he put the alligators back in it!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Barack Obama ended his presidency having granted clemency to More people convicted of federal crimes than ANY chief executive in 64 years. Plus over 200 Pardons!
@Trollslayer It’s not the quantity that matters, it’s the type of criminals. Trump just pardoned 4 murderers….let that sink in. I remember 4 years ago when Republicans would have been up in arms over this.
Foh wow
https://youtu.be/zFJ2AN_CZH8
@Trollslayer I love stupid people like you
That’s what happens when people elect criminals to the highest office.
If given a chance these same people would re-elect him in 2024, and I’m left without words.
Here’s one, Barack Obama ended his presidency having granted clemency to More people convicted of federal crimes than ANY chief executive in 64 years. Plus over 200 Pardons!
@Trollslayer It’s not the quantity that matters, it’s the type of criminals. Trump just pardoned 4 murderers….let that sink in. I remember 4 years ago when Republicans would have been up in arms over this.
Agree with you
There should be process to the pardon power. If not followed NOT valid.
Well done republicans, I am sure these crooks are a welcome roster to your fold. Well done.
Will they wind up living in my neighborhood?
Doesn’t matter what you all are saying.This is how the criminal enterprise operates.
The party of so called “law & order”, SMH. How sad that 74 million Americans voted for this criminal-in-chief.
Not sad at all. Welcome to America
Accepting a pardon is admitting guilt.
I’m sure the Iraqi’s have family members. This is what creates radicals.
When Trump says “Law and Order” he really means “I break the laws and you follow my orders”
Or “You can break the law as long as you follow my orders.”
Absolutely!
And sometimes Trump *orders* people to break the *law.*
There has to be a way to revoke these pardons, this is absolutely disgusting.
Nope they are pardoned!
@KPOP TV you Russian Spy
revoking trump would
be the real solution.
Toh wow
https://youtu.be/zFJ2AN_CZH8
“Military contractors” surely they should be called what they are, mercenaries.
Get him on Ricco act its truly a criminal organization and he’s not hiding it