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Julian Castro warns Trump won’t pardon him if elected in 2020, entertaining Nixon-like scenario
Fox News ^ | 1*17*19 | Paul Steinhauser

Posted on 01/17/2019 5:58:22 AM PST by SJackson

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Julian Castro has a message for President Trump.

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.

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Well, that will be a popular plank on the left, but I think he's getting just a bit ahead of himself.
1 posted on 01/17/2019 5:58:22 AM PST by SJackson
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Cuba is short one Castro.

I suggest Julian is Commie enough to be leader of Cuba but not American enough to be US President.


2 posted on 01/17/2019 6:01:45 AM PST by Zenjitsuman (Y)
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To: SJackson

Just another Hispanic elite that wants to change the United States of America into the United States of Amigos.


3 posted on 01/17/2019 6:05:03 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: SJackson

Headline is screwey....................


4 posted on 01/17/2019 6:05:47 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: antidemoncrat

Well, that’s one way to get all the foreigners to leave...................


5 posted on 01/17/2019 6:06:26 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: SJackson

I would say that the weird looking little creep doesn’t stand a chance to be elected, but I said that about Obama.

Just maybe the American people have gotten that aspect of “proof I am not a racist” out of their system with Obama.


6 posted on 01/17/2019 6:06:28 AM PST by odawg
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To: Red Badger

Yes, I thought it was just me.


7 posted on 01/17/2019 6:06:45 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: SJackson

why would trump have to pardon castro?

Speak English if you want to be a representative.

words do mean things, and words do mean things.


8 posted on 01/17/2019 6:09:37 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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Well I guess we better see that you don’t get elected Julian!


9 posted on 01/17/2019 6:10:43 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: SJackson

One weird trick from the queer commie left

Nothing but a pipe dream


10 posted on 01/17/2019 6:11:13 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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Why would President Trump pardon Castro after he's re-elected in 2020?
11 posted on 01/17/2019 6:11:17 AM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: odawg

This dunce and his twin are big stars in the San Antonio Express. Always grinning like the village idiots they are.


12 posted on 01/17/2019 6:11:54 AM PST by MisterArtery
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To: NEMDF

Mr. Castro may be ASKING PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR A PARDON COME 2020....................


13 posted on 01/17/2019 6:12:06 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: SJackson

also known as “here’s how Bernie Sanders can still win the 2018 election! “


14 posted on 01/17/2019 6:12:20 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Red Badger

Yes it is. I infer it to mean that Mr. Castro is running, expects Trump to win, then won’t receive a pardon from Mr. Trump for unspecified crimes.

Evidently, headline writing in clear English is not a requirement for Fox News.


15 posted on 01/17/2019 6:12:57 AM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: SJackson

When is Trump going to jail some of these criminals?


16 posted on 01/17/2019 6:18:47 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

Weird how the headline writer is willing to use the comma-’,’ tool, but just doesn’t know where to place it.


17 posted on 01/17/2019 6:20:24 AM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: SJackson

Hubris like that has sown the seeds for some spectacular downfalls. I hope Castro soon experiences his own.


18 posted on 01/17/2019 6:21:18 AM PST by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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To: Zenjitsuman

How apropos for a guy with the name CAATRO ?


19 posted on 01/17/2019 6:23:32 AM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: litehaus

make that CASTRO....


20 posted on 01/17/2019 6:24:02 AM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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