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How exactly does an Australian national wanted on rape charges in Sweden, living in the Ecuadorian embassy in Great Britain get a pardon from a US president?


3 posted on 11/16/2016 12:47:49 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

Globalism.


8 posted on 11/16/2016 12:51:24 PM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: SpaceBar

Well, to be fair pardoning an American former Senator and failed presidential candidate who is wanted by Egypt for high crimes isn’t much less goofy.


13 posted on 11/16/2016 12:54:16 PM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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The president can Pardon him but cannot stop prosecution by outside agencies.


19 posted on 11/16/2016 12:57:54 PM PST by TexasGator
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How exactly does an Australian national wanted on rape charges in Sweden, living in the Ecuadorian embassy in Great Britain get a pardon from a US president?

Too many people don't even stop and think when they see a statement like this. It's the first thing I also thought. Presidential pardons are for those who have been convicted of a crime in the US. Ford's pardon of Nixon was unusual in that Nixon was never tried or convicted. But no one challenged it.

40 posted on 11/16/2016 2:21:47 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: SpaceBar
Well Trump can pardon him for all crimes under US law.

Which Assange will not want, because that takes away the little turd's justification for cowering in Ecuador as a fugitive from Swedish law.

52 posted on 11/16/2016 4:24:14 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ("Laws are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools" Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
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To: SpaceBar

Honorary pardon?


53 posted on 11/16/2016 4:25:55 PM PST by JediJones (Social conservatism is the root of all conservatism.)
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