They grimaced
Trump people are surprised to learn that he’s reckless and impulsive.
President Trump‘s sweeping pardons for 1,500 Jan. 6 criminals and defendants were a last-minute, rip-the-bandage-off decision to try to move past the issue quickly, White House advisers familiar with the Trump team’s discussions tell Axios.
Always a good plan. If you’re going to do something evil and outrageous, do the worst possible version of it so as to get it over with quickly. What could go wrong?
Eight days before the inauguration, Vice President-to-be JD Vance — channeling what he believed to be Trump’s thinking — said on “Fox News Sunday” that Jan. 6 convicts who assaulted police ought not get clemency: “If you committed violence that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”
- Trump vacillated during an internal debate over targeted clemency vs. a blanket decision according to two insiders.
- But as Trump’s team wrestled with the issue, and planned a shock-and-awe batch of executive orders Day 1, “Trump just said: ‘F -k it: Release ’em all,'” an adviser familiar with the discussions said.
That’s the right way to solve all complicated problems. Just say “Fuck it, do the bad thing at top speed.”
Trump’s decision was a surprise to some Republicans in Congress, who grimaced at the appearance of the new president condoning violence against police officers.
The what? The what? The appearance?? Honey that wasn’t an appearance of condoning violence against cops, that was the thing itself. What the hell else would it be?
Trump hates cops and loves drug dealers. Who knew he was so gansta?
Tell me again how liberals and lefties don’t “get” Trump…
[Insert “Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party” joke of choice here]
The overwhelming impression I got about the pardons is that Trump is not a details guy, and didn’t bother checking on it. He wanted to pardon some, commute some, maybe leave some behind bars, maybe. Someone gave him an EO for pardons and he signed it. He seemed surprised but untroubled to learn that he’d pardoned every one of them.
Arcadia, I think you are being naive & far too nice to Trump, I’m afraid. He is malicious, and filled with spite. It is not a matter of his not being a ‘details guy’. He is a poisonous person, and surrounded by poisonous people like Stephen Miller, and so are those who are falling over themselves to grovel before him and those, like Elon Musk, who think they can use him for their own ends.