Pardon Obama
57 Don Surber
Kurt Schlichter argued this morning that President Donald John Trump should pardon Frank "FX" Giaccio, who at age 11 fulfilled his dream of mowing the White House lawn.
While he did not mention Giaccio specifically in his column, "Pardon Everyone," Schlichter argued that since Democrats have weaponized the Department of Justice, there can be no justice so the president should pardon everyone. That would pre-empt Democrats from waging their campaign of vengeance.
Schlichter wrote, "Pardon everyone in or around and who once said something nice about the Trump Administration from any crimes committed or alleged to be committed from the day Trump came down the elevator in NYC to the day he hops on the chopper to head to Florida to plot his Glover Cleveland power move.
"Pardon Jared and Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric, Melania and Barron, and every appointee and every staffer and everyone who made the beds or cut the lawn at the White House.
"Pardon Barr and Sessions, every cabinet secretary and every single one of their loyal underlings."
By cutting the lawn, I am sure he meant Giaccio. Maybe Giacco -- now 15 -- has him on a retainer. If so, good for the kid. Everyone who visited the White House for the past 4 years should lawyer up because Democrats plan to go after all of us.
In a nation with a million laws, everyone can be charged with anything. As Bob Dylan sang:
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doing it again
The best part of pardoning everyone is it will unleash pure, self-righteous anger from the phonies on TV and in the halls of government -- while delighting the vast majority of Americans who support President Trump because they want to make America great again.
But if I were President Trump (and you should be grateful that I am not) I would pardon a first batch of people, watch the anti-American crowd go nuts. There would be cries that if they were innocent, they would not need a pardon.
Then I would pardon Obama.
I would specifically pardon him and Biden and Susan Rice for their roles in their immoral use of the FBI to spy on political opponents including Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, and anyone else who offended or criticized Obama when he was president.
I also would specifically pardon Obama for any bribes or kickbacks he received from Iran for giving the rogue nation $150 billion it was not owed.
In the spirit of national unity, I would pardon Biden and his son for the bribes and kickbacks they received from Red China (and I would call it that) and Ukraine, saying everyone deserves a second chance.
Because face it, none of them will be indicted. Obama fundamentally transformed America into a banana republic as president. We elected Donald Trump president but he never had the opportunity to preside because of sedition within the government promoted by Obama.
We will not get justice. The criminal justice system is so corrupt that Schlichter would throw in the towel and pardon Comey, McCabe, and Hillary.
Why not? All of them are criminals who will not face so much as a speeding ticket for their crimes.
Washington's motto is No Justice? No Problem.
One reason Black Lives Matter resonates with so many people is that we see the two-tiered justice system where a douchebag like Hunter Biden snorts mountains of cocaine without penalty, while thousands of ordinary citizens are doing 20 years because his dad made a 5-year minimum sentence mandatory for doing a quarter-sized amount of crack cocaine.
But the problem is not systemic racism. Rather it is the people we elected morphed into rulers. The Trump presidency woke America to the fact that we are living in Animal Farm and our politicians are the pigs dining with Chairman Xi.
There is a very human cost for all this.
Schlichter wrote of a blanket pardon, "Is this yet another norm that mean old Trump is overturning? Hardly. Instead, it is a woke recognition of the new rules, new rules the Democrats imposed and which they should now experience, suppository-like, good and hard. How many innocent people went bankrupt after being caught up in the Russia hoax? Did they care? So why should we about depriving them of their jollies? There might have been a time when we were all playing by the rules that said that the feds would only investigate bad people and bring them to justice, where the innocent were not punished through process. Those were good times. But they are not these times.
"The Flynn travesty put the lie to the idea that the Department of Justice was anything more than just the Department. The Democrats weaponized law enforcement exactly like it weaponized the IRS, leveraging its power to attack and destroy their political enemies, and the Establishment shrugged as the media cheered. Now, there's no justice to be had, except in pulling the intended victims from the jaws of these monsters."
The America that Frank Giaccio deserves does not exist anymore.
The way to bring it back is to fight harder.
No, make that fight smarter.
Humiliation works. Obama will never go to jail and he does not care if he goes to hell.
But becoming the second president to be pardoned -- for the sake of national unity, of course -- would be a delicious comeuppance. His round of TV appearances to protest that he did nothing wrong would be Must See TV.
And then President Trump should pardon Giaccio and the rest of us who supported and still support him. Schlichter is right. They want our heads on their pikes as a warning to any and all. |
