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Pardongate!
It’s
the
biggest
story
ever!
The
major
papers
are
still
chewing
over
it,
with
several
front-page
stories
at
both
the
New
York
Times
and
the
Washington
Post.
Has
President
Biden
disgraced
his
office?
Is
his
legacy
ruined?
Is
this
an
unfortunate
but
necessary
response
to
Trump’s
plan
to
put
a
deranged
lunatic
who
has
vowed
to
prosecute
Hunter
Biden
in
charge
of
the
FBI?
(Yes.)
Will
this
now
embolden
Trump
to
pardon
all
the
January
6
defendants,
as
he’s
been
promising
to
do
for
a
year
now?
(GFYS.)
But
Joe
Manchin
will
slay
all
comers.
The
retiring
West
Virginia
senator
has
once
again
come
up
with
the
dumbest
take
of
all.
“As
a
father,
I
would
have
done
the
same
thing,”
Manchin
told
CNN’s
Manu
Raju.
“What
I
would
have
done
differently,
my
recommendation
as
counsel
would
have
been,
why
don’t
you
go
ahead
and
pardon
Donald
Trump
for
all
his
charges?
Make
it
—
you
know,
it
would
have
gone
down
a
lot
more
balanced
if
you
will.”
Even
that
guy
sounds
exhausted
by
his
own
bullshit.
On
the
one
hand,
the
Supreme
Court
of
the
United
States
made
good
and
goddamn
sure
that
Donald
Trump
would
never
face
trial
for
plotting
a
coup.
Judge
Aileen
Cannon
ensured
that
he
could
steal
classified
documents
and
stack
them
up
in
the
shower
with
impunity
by
discovering
that
special
counsels
are
illegal.
And,
after
demanding
that
his
sentencing
in
New
York
for
creating
false
business
records
be
postponed
until
after
the
election
to
avoid
the
appearance
of
political
interference,
he’s
now
going
to
avoid
justice
at
all
because
he
managed
to
win.
On
the
other
hand,
an
addict
who
paid
his
taxes
late
and
broke
a
law
the
Fifth
Circuit
says
is
unconstitutional
was
going
to
go
to
jail
while
Republicans
spend
another
four
years
poring
over
his
stolen
dick
pics
and
trying
to
frame
him
for
some
kind
of
bribery
scheme
so
complicated
it
left
no
record
at
all.
And
so
President
Biden
could
have
avoided
the
appearance
of
nepotism
by
condoning
the
coming
assault
on
democracy.
For
balance!
And
if
you
can’t
trust
the
man
who
killed
the
wildly
popular
child
tax
credit
because
he
thought
parents
might
buy
drugs
instead
of
feeding
their
kids,
who
can
you
trust!
Liz
Dye
lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
produces
the
Law
and
Chaos
substack and podcast.