1. Recompensa a los Conspiradores Electorales.
La comunidad en línea condena la concesión de perdones a figuras clave que intentaron anular los resultados de las elecciones de 2020, como Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows y John Eastman. Estos actos son vistos como una recompensa directa por la traición y un intento de reescribir la historia, enviando un mensaje de impunidad a quienes atacan el proceso democrático.
- Trump is rewriting history and rewarding those who tried to destroy democracy. This week, trump is handing pardons out to rudy giuliani, sidney powell, mark meadows, john eastman, kenneth chesebro, and more than 70 who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election.
- Wholesale pardons of figures involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election are an affront to american democracy.
- Trump just pardoned the coup crew and flipped off democracy trump has pardoned rudy giuliani, mark meadows, sidney powell, john eastman, and the rest of his fake-elector entourage the people who tried to swap real votes for imaginary ones so he could stay in power.
2. Absolución de los Insurreccionistas del 6 de Enero.
Se critica duramente el perdón otorgado a los participantes en el asalto al Capitolio, incluidos aquellos que atacaron a la policía. Esto se interpreta como un mensaje de que la lealtad personal a Trump está por encima de la Constitución y la ley, y que los crímenes contra la democracia serán recompensados, alentando futuras violencias políticas.
- Just like the pardons for the january 6th rioters who beat and traumatized police officers, this sends a message loyalty to trump over loyalty to the constitution will be rewarded. Crimes against democracy continue to go unpunished.
- Trump also pardoned hundreds of people who stormed the capitol on january 6, including those who attacked police officers. Its a rewrite of history meant to erase the consequences of an assault on democracy.
- Rioters tried to kill me on january 6. Trump pardoned them. Sgt. Aquilino gonell writes a must-read piece on what its like to risk your life to defend democracy, only to be called an un-american traitor.
3. El Perdón como Amenaza a la Democracia y el Estado de Derecho.
Los usuarios expresan que el uso del poder de perdón por parte de Trump, a menudo motivado por ganancia personal, soborno o lealtad política, socava la rendición de cuentas y representa una amenaza urgente para el sistema democrático. Muchos abogan por reformas constitucionales para limitar o eliminar este poder, comparando la situación con la de una "república bananera".
- Trumps abuse of the pardon power undermines accountability and threatens our democracy. None of this should ever feel normal.
- If democracy is ever restored in the us, there needs to be an urgent constitutional amendment that prohibits presidents from pardoning accomplices in crimes the president has committed, or using pardons for political or financial gain.
- The corruption of the pardon power is an urgent threat to our democracy.
- The next democratic primary should include a push to amend the constitution to remove the presidential pardon entirely imo. I can understand arguments for keeping it around, but trumps abuses make clear how corrosive it is for democracy.