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White House weighs ‘250 pardons for 250 years’ to mark America’s birthday: report
(www.the-independent.com)
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Lol you could do 250 of thousands of different things that would all be objectively better than pardoning 250 convicted criminals.
It'd be pretty easy to hand out 250 pardons to reasonable, reformed or innocent people.
Of course he won't. He'll pardon anyone who pays him.