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Posted on 01/16/2019 10:47:45 AM PST by jazusamo
The White House hopeful, at his first campaign stop in New Hampshire since declaring his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, said that if he’s elected, Trump shouldn’t expect a pardon for any possible misdeeds that could come to light in coming months.
"I think that the next president is going to … make a decision like this about the president because one of those investigations, whether it's the Mueller investigation or it's in the Southern District of New York, is going to present the issue of punishment. That's what I believe," Castro said Tuesday night at a jam-packed tea café in this small city near the Maine border.
The comments, from one of several longshot candidates entering what is likely to be a historically crowded field, highlight how the Russia probe and the prospect of Democrats someday delivering Trump’s comeuppance – whether in the form of impeachment or, in Castro’s case, the denial of a pardon – have factored into their campaigns, first in the midterms and now heading into 2020.
Castro, in his pardon remarks, was entertaining a scenario posed to him by a Democratic activist who asked whether he would use President Gerald Ford’s pardon of former President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s as a guide – in the event he is president and Trump is facing charges. Ford was criticized at the time, though many Americans felt he made the right move in helping the country move past the crisis.
"I would not be inclined to issue a pardon, because I don't think that anybody should be above the law," Castro, the former San Antonio mayor who later served as housing secretary under President Barack Obama, said to cheers and applause from the Democratic activists gathered at the café.
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First, President Trump won't need a pardon and second, this socialist Castro won't be POTUS.
He's counting his chickens before they're hatched.
Trump shouldn’t expect a pardon for any possible misdeeds that could come to light in coming months.
Still it angers me reading the crazy evil from the left.
and the media is carrying it instead of laughing and going home.
ROTFLMAO
That, plus when he gave a speech announcing his intention to run he started it with Buenos Dias.
Castro thinks he is a VIP!!!! He is not a VIP, but a political midget.
Let me add that Castro may want to think about who might be in a position to pardon him. He’s got more than a little bit of explaining to do.
this basically unknown nobody threatens not to pardon PDJT for what, pray tell?
there has to be a conviction of some crime before a pardon can be considered
so far, nobody’s proven that PDJT did as much bad as Jaywalking
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When push comes to shove most white Democrats (what’s left of them) won’t vote for a Hispanic who cares more about illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America than he does the American people!
Whatever.
Just running your mouth for future bene’s.
you have Nada chance of being elected in 2020
President Castro?
I guess after the Kenyanesian Usurpation, anything is possible.
That’s fine: Trump won’t pardon Castro for dipping into the till at HUD.
Let’s see who cares more about the other guy’s statement.
Showing his colors WAAAAAY too early, which is, of course, fine and dandy! America will now know in plenty of time that this little LIEberal La Raza pogue is a noxious, venomous asshole!
[Merriam Webster:
noxious = “physically harmful or destructive to living beings;”
venomous = “expressing very strong hatred or anger”
asshole:” “a bad, stupid, or annoying person.”]
LOL! He thinks he can become President of the USA! A former HUD Secretary and mayor of San Antonio brings WHAT to the table?
Chutzpah ain’t enough to be POTUS!
Anger ain’t either!
And, working for Ophonybama certainly has no creds!
Yep, the corrupt HUD Sec Castro appointed by corrupt 0bama shouldn’t be shooting his mouth off about anyone.
Julian, Line 2, the tooth fairy, Urgent.. Uhh .. and on Line 3 , the elves at the North Pole want to file a petition and need your help..
incredible. but true. 8-o
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