Trump to pardon Scooter Libby

[MomentsofSanity]

So Trump has signaled his intention to pardon ol' Scooter. Bush commuted his sentence but refused to pardon him. Cheney and Bush had some public contempt for one another over that decision.

Some are viewing this as a signal from Trump of his willingness to forgive those who may stand in the way of Mueller. As you may recall, Libby was charged with obstruction of justice for lying to investigators in the Valerie Plame affair.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/politics/donald-trump-scooter-libby-pardon/index.html

 

[TheVrolok]

Trump is offering protection.

 

[interchange]

So he's going to pardon someone convicted for obstruction of justice related to leaking classified information? Nope. No irony there.

 

[vi edit]

And a fledgling obstructor takes it's first awkward steps toward the edge of the nest and stretches it's wings.

 

[HomerJS]

So he's going to pardon someone convicted for obstruction of justice related to leaking classified information? Nope. No irony there.

Irony? Its a damned roadmap for the future. This is a trial balloon

 

[emperus]

I have no shocks or outrage left to give. Trump has succeeded in making nothing shocking anymore. The FBI director is on TV talking about the president being peed on... no shocks left.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Perhaps Trump has someone read him bedtime stories and he liked the one with little kids and bears and wants Scooter to write more.

 

[VRAMdemon]

He's just telling all his allies "lie to the FBI, perjure yourself, I don't care. Protect me and I'll pardon you.

Dude's not in prison, he now has his law license back and he had his voting rights restored by the governor of Virginia. This is nothing but a message.

 

[hal2kilo]

Irony? Its a damned roadmap for the future. This is a trial balloon

It a signal to a specific audience. Those with names of Manafort, Flynn, and Gates. Keep your mouth shut, you will be pardoned.

 

[UNCjigga]

Joe Wilson (ex-ambassador and husband of outed spy Valerie Plame) is on the phone with MSNBC saying Libby was essentially the fall guy for John Bolton--Bolton was actively leaking his wife's identity.

This pardon sends a signal to Mueller and interviewees, but is also a personal favor to Bolton.

How this guy becomes NSA director after leaking a CIA spy's identity is beyond me.

Edit: I guess this is not news...Bolton had been suspected of orchestrating the Plame leak to undermine Wilson and his claims of faulty Iraq WMD Intel from the get-go.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7648
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2005/10/29/160582/-

 

[soundforbjt]

Maybe he did this to get neocons on his side for the midterms.

 

[JEDI]

So Trump has signaled his intention to pardon ol' Scooter. Bush commuted his sentence but refused to pardon him. Cheney and Bush had some public contempt for one another over that decision.

Some are viewing this as a signal from Trump of his willingness to forgive those who may stand in the way of Mueller. As you may recall, Libby was charged with obstruction of justice for lying to investigators in the Valerie Plame affair.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/politics/donald-trump-scooter-libby-pardon/index.html

so Libby gets back the $ ($500k?) he paid for the fine as part of his conviction??

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Now we need to put Richard Armitage in jail for 11 years.

 

[UNCjigga]

Now we need to put Richard Armitage in jail for 11 years.

Never gonna happen, he was smart about being a cooperating witness and not lying...or at least he had cover to claim that he had no idea Plame was undercover at the time.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

Trump is a liar. He likes liars...why should liars be in jail? They are his people...they reflect his belief that the truth is for the stupid and the weak. Except for Hillary...lock her up...

 

[Thebobo]

Unfucking believable. Just saw Valerie Palmer on the tube talking about it.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/donald-trump-pardons-scooter-libby/index.html

Release the criminals!

 

[nickqt]

Unfucking believable. Just saw Valerie Palmer on the tube talking about it.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/donald-trump-pardons-scooter-libby/index.html

Release the criminals!

Totally foreseeable. A tweet from November 9th, 2016.

https://twitter.com/Mr_Electrico/status/796524541950513153

Totally believable for anyone who has paid attention to Republican politics for the past 50 years. Nixon. A whole slew of Reagan criminals. Bush II criminals. You get the picture.

This is just a signal flare to Strongman Trump's own swamp-drained criminals that they too can get pardons.

A tweet from November 9th, 2016.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Apparently with this, as he did with Arpaio, he didn’t go through the Justice review process. Just wiped the slate clean.

 

[Jhhnn]

Comey appointed Fitzgerald who convicted Libby which is now being painted as a witch hunt by the GOP. Oh, and Mueller was head of the FBI.

The Deep State conspiracy theories will be epic.

 

[blankslate]

Trump is offering protection.

basically this.

If he'll grant a pardon to someone who revealed an undercover CIA agent he'll pardon just about anyone... especially if they get time for protecting his administration.


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[WHAMPOM]

Trump recruitment program, pardoned felons.

 

[kage69]

Yet more epic fail from Dump.

Leakers! Comey was a biggest leaker! Leakers are traitors, we will catch them, they belong in jail! Damn leakers! Fuck you Comey!

...followed immediately by...

Here Scooter (leaked Plame's identity), have a pardon!


What an asshole.

 

[nickqt]

Yet more epic fail from Dump.

Leakers! Comey was a biggest leaker! Leakers are traitors, we will catch them, they belong in jail! Damn leakers! Fuck you Comey!

...followed immediately by...

Here Scooter (leaked Plame's identity), have a pardon!


What an asshole.

You say fail. Others say hypocrite.

Yet, it's simpler than that.

IOKIYAR now, tomorrow, forever.

 

[Ns1]

You say fail. Others say hypocrite.

Yet, it's simpler than that.

IOKIYAR now, tomorrow, forever.

I'm sorry I think you misspelled PATRIOT

 

[bradly1101]

If Nixon was still alive I'm sure he'd feel angelic.