First there needs to be a conviction, doesn't there, in order for a pardon to be issued?

Although in the case of Nixon, Ford issued a preemptive pardon.

But when faced with the facts of the House of Representatives impending Impeachment, Nixon knew what he did was wrong, and chose to resign from office rather than going through the Impeachment in the House, and the certain guilty verdict in the Senate.

So in fact Nixon had admitted his guilt before Ford had issued the Nixon pardon.

But in the case of trump, he'll fight with his last dying breath to never admit his guilt to any crime.

As others (at least one before I wrote this post) have stated, no President can issue a pardon for a State crime, they're only issued for Federal Crimes.

So far, trump has managed to stall his Federal trials with appeal after appeal, or has so twisted the judge in his stolen documents case into a pretzel that she's risking her job as a judge because she's openly showing her bias towards trump, the benefactor for her current job. In her courtroom, the scales of justice are tipped drastically in the direction of trump.

The only reason why she's still on the case is because she keeps issuing "paperless orders"! The next time she makes a reprimandable mistake, the 11 Circuit Court of Appeals will likely remove Judge Cannon from the case.

Does trump deserve being issued a pardon?

Absolutely NOT.

He's a serial criminal who's finally being brought to justice. Let the criminal cases all go to trial so that his uneducated maga supporters will finally find out the t***h about trump.

There are still investigations underway into the f**e e*****rs in at least two more states, Michigan is the latest one. Other states include Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin. He's already been indicted in Georgia. At this time, Pennsylvania and New Mexico have declined to bring charges.

Let's not forget that trump is having trouble raising money, most of the donations he's gotten since trump LOST the 2020 e******n have been diverted to cover trump's legal fees.

Remember when trump first chose to run for office back in 2015, he said he wouldn't need campaign donations because he'd self fund his campaign? My how his story has changed dramatically over the last almost 9 years. Now trump is desperately BEGGING his uneducated cultists for donations to pay his legal fees. But they aren't going to be able to fund his court ordered settlements.

trump is even trying to sell his VP nominee slot in hopes of adding funds to his legal defense fund!

No, trump absolutely DOES NOT deserve any kind of pardon.

We already know that under current Georgia law, if convicted, trump would need to serve out his sentence before becoming eligible for a pardon.

I haven't researched the requirements for pardons in the other states where the f**e e*****rs cases are pending, or indictments have been issued.

A legally and financially strapped candidate like trump does not belong in the Oval Office where he'd likely be c*********d by foreign adversaries.

A Federal Pardon could clear the way for trump to regain access to the Oval Office.

That's a huge National Security risk which as a country we can't afford to take.

And now YOU are in self-repeating mode: regurgitating the same information without any evidence.
In direct opposition to recorded historical facts which have been DOCUMENTED in literature and admitted to by proponents of creationism/intelligent design.

There is sufficient evidence of statements made, policies started, arguments made, testimony (in court) and potential mis-information promoted by the Institute for Creation Research and similar groups that is readily available and cannot be denied.

You may call it a lie, and all the evidence a lie, but facts are facts — not lies.

The only reason I choose not to “defend” ID hypotheses or conjectures is they have no basis in objective scientific reality. They are claims-without-substance, assertions-without-demonstrated-proofs and are not demonstrated by adhering to the methods of scientific investigation.


For a theory to qualify as scientific, it is expected to be:
- Consistent
- Parsimonious (sparing in its proposed entities or explanations; see Occam's razor)
- Useful (describes and explains observed phenomena, and can be used in a predictive manner)
- Empirically testable and falsifiable (potentially confirmable or disprovable by experiment or observation)
- Based on multiple observations (often in the form of controlled, repeated experiments)
- Correctable and dynamic (modified in the light of observations that do not support it)
- Progressive (refines previous theories)
- Provisional or tentative (is open to experimental checking, and does not assert certainty)

For any theory, hypothesis, or conjecture to be considered scientific, it must meet most, and ideally all, of these criteria. The fewer criteria are met, the less scientific it is; if it meets only a few or none at all, then it cannot be treated as scientific in any meaningful sense of the word.