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You're still working under the "technically correct" definition. Yes, a state crime is pardonable only by the head of that state, the governor. What you do not appear to be conceding is the trump may have the indirect power to replace the governor. trump is now targeting the governor of Maine (for an unrelated trump tantrum). If trump and Musk bring the power of the federal government to strip funding away from Maine, and Musk funds GOP friendly rivals for governor, that new governor would issue the pardon. The end result being trump wanting a pardon (yes at the state level), and getting it.
That's Maine, Maine is a blue state and it costs him and his little electoral capital to attack a Dem politician in a blue state.
WV is red, extremely red. Trying to fuck with WV like that is attacking a strongly red state, and risks making the other red states realize that maybe, just maybe the leopard might eat their faces too. We're not far enough down the "and then they came for..." list for that to be a safe move, yet.
Not true, but okay. That's not the "technically correct" definition; that's the unambiguously correct definition, and people who have no idea how pardon powers work are coping hard that they upvote whatever they think is true without actually doing any work to verify what they read. As with Reddit, so with Lemmy: it's a constant on social media, and it's a constant here that people have no fucking idea what they're talking about and just vote based on what sounds right to them and what sounds the most authoritative. Evidenced by the fact you can't go five seconds without reading an upvoted comment by someone who didn't read past the headline (and then whining that that information should've been in the headline when they get called on it or trying to "um ackshually" their way out of it).
Come back to me if this person gets pardoned. Until then: lol.
ok