After Pardoning the "Boots" of the Insurrection, Trump Pardons the "Suits" of the Insurrection!
By: Glenn Kirschner
Corrupt to the core. This is the guy his supporters elected to the presidency of our nation.
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So friends, previously Donald Trump pardoned the boots of the insurrection—his supporters who attacked the Capitol, beat the hell out of police officers, and hunted for our elected officials, including Trump’s own vice president.
He pardoned the boots of the insurrection previously. And now Trump has pardoned the suits of the insurrection—the attorneys and others who tried to help him steal the 2020 election, including the unindicted co-conspirators who were in Donald Trump’s federal indictment for his alleged January 6 crimes.
He pardoned the boots. Now he’s pardoned the suits.
Let’s talk about that, because justice matters.
Hey all, Glenn Kirschner here. So friends, Donald Trump appears to be using the pardon power in an attempt to build a team of criminals—to put together tomorrow’s conspiracy, maybe to make sure he never has to leave power.
Let’s start with the new reporting. This from NBC News:
Headline: Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who were involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The pardons may be largely symbolic, as none of the people listed were convicted of federal crimes, which the presidential pardon covers.
Friends, I see it differently. I don’t think these were merely symbolic pardons—but please, put a pin in that. We’ll circle back to it.
The article begins:
“President Donald Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani and scores of others accused of involvement in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election,” Trump’s pardon attorney said late Sunday.
The list of 77 people also includes other high-profile Trump allies, including attorneys Sidney Powell, John Eastman, and Kenneth Chesebro, and Trump’s chief of staff in 2020, Mark Meadows. The pardon is written in broad language that exonerates all citizens accused of election interference.
The pardons are largely symbolic, as none of the people listed were convicted of federal crimes, which the presidential pardon covers. Several of those pardoned had already had their charges dropped by state courts.
Giuliani was disbarred in New York and in Washington, D.C., over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Since returning to office, Trump has sought to undo the narrative—undo the truth—established by an 18-month investigation by the House January 6 Committee that he, Trump, oversaw efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, culminating in his supporters marching on the Capitol on the day Congress was to formalize Joe Biden’s victory.
In January of this year, Trump issued 1,500 pardons and commuted the sentences of 14 of his supporters who were connected with the January 6 attack on the Capitol, including members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers groups who were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Now friends, I’m not going to read through all 77 names—all of the suits of the insurrection that Donald Trump just pardoned—but they included his unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators, his co-conspirators that were in Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment for Trump’s efforts to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
They included people like Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Kenneth Chesebro, and Boris Epshteyn.
And they included other Trump lawyers and associates and lackeys—Christina Bobb, Jenna Ellis, Mark Meadows, Mike Roman—77 in all.
Many of these lawyers have been disbarred or sanctioned, like Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis, and Kenneth Chesebro, who pleaded guilty to crimes in connection with the Georgia state RICO prosecution for what Trump and company did to try to steal the 2020 election in the state of Georgia.
As you heard in the reporting, presidential pardons don’t apply to states, so there are still state proceedings moving through the system. Let’s hope that the state law enforcement authorities, prosecutors, and district attorneys continue to prosecute those cases, because federal presidential pardons will not impact those state cases.
When I saw this reporting—you know, I’m not a political expert or pundit. I never even tried to play one on TV. I’m a rule-of-law guy. My entire professional career, I was a prosecutor in court, trying to remain loyal to the facts, the rule of law, and the Constitution.
And when I saw this reporting about these 77 additional pardons, I sat down with pen and paper, fueled by rage, fueled by a love of American democracy and allegiance to the rule of law and the Constitution, and fueled by probably way too much caffeine.
I wrote a short piece for my Substack page that, with your kind indulgence, I’d like to read. It’s very short, but it’s an easier way for me to collect my thoughts and relate them to you.
Trump’s pardons of his January 6 unindicted co-conspirators is a recruiting call to interfere in upcoming elections.
So, we just learned that Donald Trump pardoned a bunch of people, including his unindicted co-conspirators in the now-defunct federal prosecution of Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Who are these unindicted co-conspirators? The people who allegedly helped Trump try to thwart the expressed will of the American voters in the 2020 presidential election.
Here is what American Oversight wrote about the co-conspirators in that federal case:
“The Justice Department’s indictment mentions six unnamed co-conspirators who allegedly assisted Trump in his criminal efforts to stay in power. Based on context and details provided in the indictment, five of them have been identified as Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark, and Kenneth Chesebro. The sixth co-conspirator is speculated by many to be Boris Epshteyn.”
And who did Donald Trump just pardon? Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark, Kenneth Chesebro, and Boris Epshteyn.
The New York Times tells us that these pardons are merely symbolic, writing:
“The pardons, which only apply to federal crimes, are primarily symbolic. None of those named on the list are currently facing federal charges, and the pardons cannot shield them from continuing state-level prosecutions.”
This misses the point entirely.
These pardons serve as a recruiting call for people to interfere in the upcoming elections—both the midterms and the 2028 presidential race.
What do these pardons signal?
If you are alleged to have committed crimes designed to interfere in an American election, Trump will have your back with a presidential pardon.
Trump might as well post a job announcement:
Election Interference Co-Conspirators Wanted
Qualifications:
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Must be willing to lie about election interference.
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Must be willing to undermine the expressed will of the American voters.
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Must be willing to destroy American democracy.
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And if push comes to shove—literally—must be willing to attack the United States Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of a presidential election.
Benefits:
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A presidential pardon for any and all crimes committed in the execution of your conspiratorial responsibilities.
Trump is not only weaponizing the Department of Justice—he is weaponizing the pardon power and using it as a kind of “calling all insurrectionists” recruiting tool.
Let’s hope that nobody applies for that job.
I’ll say it again, friends: let’s hope nobody applies for that job, because justice matters.
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Every week, this corrupt psychopath engages in wrongdoing and/or damage to this nation.
You misspelled "day".
Sadly, there are far too many rightwing conservative Christo-fascists out there who want exactly this. They have been waiting for their 'kind', aka white conservative Christians, to 'rise up' which was exactly the same words they've been using about the South, that the South will "rise up", and what that means is they believe the white Christian confederacy of their ancestors will take over America and turn it into a Christian version of Iran where rightwing conservative Christians rule openly and no one dares to oppose them for fear of being targeted and persecuted. That's why they are destroying our government right now, they are dismantling even the buildings themselves to remake them in their disgusting gaudy gold painted fantasy of superiority, just like the last fuckwads just over half a century ago who thought they were the master race.
There are just too many who see the corruption as a feature, not a bug.
Everyone sees the similarities, sadly some actually like the similarities. They're likely the same ones who watch Star Wars and complain about what they see as the terrorist group of rebel aliens that are trying to blow up a space station full of white conservatives. The emperor pardoning anyone who committed crimes on his behalf is just what those kinds of corrupt conservative minds expect and support.
Spot on post.