Majorities of Americans say Donald Trump gives out too many pardons and want to limit pardon power
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Majorities of Americans say Donald Trump gives out too many pardons and want to limit pardon power
Source: nosotros_road_sodium
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I wouldn’t say it’s the number of pardons that’s most controversial. It’s the obvious fact you can buy one for a million bucks.
I don’t think anyone wants that former Honduras president drug lord guy pardoned.
He is not “giving” anything. He has a pardons-for-sale gig.
It’s just another grift just like Trump gold cards will be if enacted.
He isn’t “giving them out” for free. There’s a lot of quid pro quo (this for that) going on.
The whole “future pardon” shtick has got to go
The Framers screwed up when they gave the President a power that Kings traditionally had. No one should have pardon power. We have a Judicial system for a reason.
Presidential pardons should not exist.
And yet the article clearly says a minority of people. Fake, ridiculous headline.
Well, personally, I object to the bribes to let the worst criminals out.
And undoubtedly, many want to limit it in 3 years in the event a dem comes into power.
He gave 237 pardons his first term. I don’t understand American voters. Why don’t they learn? Can an American please explain why?
The pardon power in the United States is bonkers. It, by itself, makes the President a king.
Abolish the pardon.
He doesn’t give them out.
He sells them
In doing so he creates a base of loyal drones.
They will feel empowered to commit more crimes the next 3+ years (good god, it’s been less than a year in this mofos term & it already feels like a lifetime of chaos) under the – very likely accurate – assumption Trump will pardon them (or preemptively pardon if they are charged but he’s voted out… yeah, “preemptive” pardons, can you believe that shit is allowed? Under certain conditions, still…)
Power hungry narcissists are & will forever be insufferable little twats!
trump’s not gonna allow that, obviously. i miss democracy.
As he tries to pardon an election denier sentenced for ***state*** crimes in Colorado…
“Gives out” suggests that people aren’t making loads of money off them
He rewards loyalty and payment. Give him either and you can do any federal crime you want. What a sad America.
The GOP creeps will just wait until Democrats win the Presidency to “limit the pardon power so we will never have happen what happen3d with Trump.” Assholes, one and all.
Unpopular opinion: Donald Trump’s pardons are the least of our problems right now. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he’s using them, in part, to distract from the widespread destruction he’s raining down on our economy, our judicial system, and in our system of government (any of which might end the republic).
He pardons corrupt leaders because they resonate with him so much.
Why should any president have any power to pardon? The idea is flawed at its core.
Abort the pardon power. Should never have been a thing to begin with. Fuck this shady, backdoor bullshit.
Let’s get rid of pardons all together. Trump just took advantage and ruined it for all presidents.
I’d like to ask for a pardon up front, before committing my next felony-misdemeanor-death-penalty-crime-against-humanity.
Couldn’t find any articles from him on Biden’s pardons.
Could be wrong, but didn’t Biden issue many as well, and did so prior to Trumps latest pardons. I wonder how much ‘the opening of Pandora’s box’ played into that, not that we will ever know.
I think the biggest change is the timing, usually don’t at the expiration of the term.
Felons shouldn’t be allowed to pardon other felons.
In retrospect, we should probably have made some specific call outs about how pardons for bribes should be unlawful. That was always a verb that needed some amount of limitations beyond “Good Ol Boys Gentlemanly Agreements To No Fuckery”
Would it be possible for us to reverse pardons? If we proved bribery or other illicit aspects of a pardon, such that the commission of the pardon was conspiratorial? Would it then be clearly outside of the official duties of the Office of the Presidency? Kind of like the claim that an autopen invalidates a previous official order of a President.
Just some wishful thinking here. Wouldn’t mind seeing all these knobs scooped back up if we did manage to get our Democracy back.
[Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/trump-pardon-honduras-hernandez-drugs)
*Majority of americans tacitly support fascist paedophile terrorist
1 pardon = 30 days off term
He’s ***selling*** pardons – and if you think he’s going to stop, well I’ve got this gorgeous bridge I can sell you…
A president should not be able to pardon anyone they have a personal or professional relationship with. They should not be able to give a pardon for crimes that they have not been convicted of. No blanket pardons. Pardons should only remove the punishment and not the conviction.