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Joe Manchin Weighs In With Dumbest Take Yet On Pardonghazi

He's running through the tape.

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Joe Manchin Sept 7

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Pardongate! It’s the biggest story ever! The major papers are still chewing over it, with several front-page stories at both the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Has President Biden disgraced his office? Is his legacy ruined? Is this an unfortunate but necessary response to Trump’s plan to put a deranged lunatic who has vowed to prosecute Hunter Biden in charge of the FBI? (Yes.) Will this now embolden Trump to pardon all the January 6 defendants, as he’s been promising to do for a year now? (GFYS.)

But Joe Manchin will slay all comers. The retiring West Virginia senator has once again come up with the dumbest take of all.

“As a father, I would have done the same thing,” Manchin told CNN’s Manu Raju. “What I would have done differently, my recommendation as counsel would have been, why don’t you go ahead and pardon Donald Trump for all his charges? Make it — you know, it would have gone down a lot more balanced if you will.”

Even that guy sounds exhausted by his own bullshit.

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On the one hand, the Supreme Court of the United States made good and goddamn sure that Donald Trump would never face trial for plotting a coup. Judge Aileen Cannon ensured that he could steal classified documents and stack them up in the shower with impunity by discovering that special counsels are illegal. And, after demanding that his sentencing in New York for creating false business records be postponed until after the election to avoid the appearance of political interference, he’s now going to avoid justice at all because he managed to win.

On the other hand, an addict who paid his taxes late and broke a law the Fifth Circuit says is unconstitutional was going to go to jail while Republicans spend another four years poring over his stolen dick pics and trying to frame him for some kind of bribery scheme so complicated it left no record at all.

And so President Biden could have avoided the appearance of nepotism by condoning the coming assault on democracy. For balance!

And if you can’t trust the man who killed the wildly popular child tax credit because he thought parents might buy drugs instead of feeding their kids, who can you trust!

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Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she produces the Law and Chaos substack and podcast.

 

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