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Bruce » 05 Aug 2023, 6:12 am » wrote: ↑

05 Aug 2023, 6:12 am

As President, my primary concern must always be the greatest good of all the people of the United States whose servant I am. As a man, my first consideration is to be true to my own convictions and my own conscience.
 My conscience tells me clearly and certainly that I cannot prolong the bad dreams that continue to reopen a chapter that is closed. My conscience tells me that only I, as President, have the constitutional power to firmly shut and seal this book. My conscience tells me it is my duty, not merely to proclaim domestic tranquillity but to use every means that I have to insure it.
 I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
 I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.
 Finally, I feel that Richard Nixon and his loved ones have suffered enough and will continue to suffer, no matter what I do, no matter what we, as a great and good nation, can do together to make his goal of peace come true.
 [At this point, the President began reading from the proclamation granting the pardon.]
 "Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from July (January) 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974."
 [The President signed the proclamation and then resumed reading.]
 "In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-ninth."
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I was 16 years old when Ford pardoned Nixon and until the rise of Trump I always supported his decision.

Now I don’t.

Trump should have a fair trail, and rot in ADX SuperMax until the day he dies, and be cremated and his ashes scattered so they won’t be made into a shrine by his fanatical supporters.

Ford **** up, pardoning Nixon.

If we let Trump get off, there’s going to be Trump after Trump until finally a Trump establishes a dictatorship by popular consent.