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 hes elected, Trump shouldnt 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 Trumps comeuppance whether in the form of impeachment or, in Castros 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 Fords 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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Cuba is short one Castro.
I suggest Julian is Commie enough to be leader of Cuba but not American enough to be US President.
Just another Hispanic elite that wants to change the United States of America into the United States of Amigos.
Headline is screwey....................
Well, that’s one way to get all the foreigners to leave...................
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.
Yes, I thought it was just me.
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.
Well I guess we better see that you don’t get elected Julian!
One weird trick from the queer commie left
Nothing but a pipe dream
This dunce and his twin are big stars in the San Antonio Express. Always grinning like the village idiots they are.
Mr. Castro may be ASKING PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR A PARDON COME 2020....................
also known as “here’s how Bernie Sanders can still win the 2018 election! “
Yes it is. I infer it to mean that Mr. Castro is running, expects Trump to win, then wont receive a pardon from Mr. Trump for unspecified crimes.
Evidently, headline writing in clear English is not a requirement for Fox News.
When is Trump going to jail some of these criminals?
Weird how the headline writer is willing to use the comma-’,’ tool, but just doesn’t know where to place it.
Hubris like that has sown the seeds for some spectacular downfalls. I hope Castro soon experiences his own.
How apropos for a guy with the name CAATRO ?
make that CASTRO....
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