The MAGATs surrounding Trump form the greatest criminal syndicate in American history.

And don't forget the oligarchs that are stealing everything that they can lay their grubby hands on.

Crime pays very handsomely in the Amerika of today.

All supported by the US taxpayer, courts, congress, and other US institutions.

so Der orange Fuhrer probably demanded 10% , 160 million.

This is what putin does in Russia.

appalled by a criminal pardon they voted against the guy who furloughed Horton.

program the governor supported. Bush made it appear like Dukakis had murdered and raped himself, and corporate media went along with it. Had Hillary or Joe transferred a convicted sexual abuser like Ghislaine Maxwell to a country club prison, the media would literally crucify them. With all of Trump's corrupt pardons, it's crickets.

There is no check nor balance against it. It is absolute raw monarchical power.

I take 'No Kings' seriously.

I am anti-monarchist over here in Sweden and the UK, and anti-monarchical powers in the US.

a pardon could be useful for those cases where the justice system failed or could be used for true justice. But with the Korrupt Korpulent Koprolite currently befouling the White House, the pardon power can be corrupted. What we need to do is update the Constitution to prevent corruption from getting into office, as well as stripping out the last vestiges of the racism and pro-slavery (i.e., the Electoral College, Senate make up, fix the language of the second, etc.).

Presidents of both parties have abused the pardon power over the years. Trump is only taking it (of course he is, as he is a hyper-criminal) to new lows.

No person should have absolute, unchecked, non-balanced power in the US Constitutionally-mandated system.

The power of the POTUS to absolutely pardon is the power of a monarch and to that I stridently say, 'No kings!'

good one, too. But still, what mechanism is there for a gross miscarriage of justice?

If he had only waited for the Black Friday sales he could have afforded a full pardon.

while shielding both sides of the transaction.

. . . have on Trump?

No shots fired.

Aren’t being deported. They’re being pardoned.

where it is allegedly gold?

I've always had a vivid imagination, but that's what came into my head when I saw the picture in the OP. Instead of gold, I saw red, as in blood. (perhaps because I've read a few other threads on DU this morning, including about this POS administration killing people for sport, in the name of interdicting drug trafficking.)

Just wondered if I'm the only one.

because it's exactly the same kind of shit Trump has been doing all his life.