Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) pressed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to pardon former President Trump following his recent conviction in his hush money trial.

“Donald Trump is a serial liar, cheater, and philanderer, a six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy, an instigator of insurrection, and a convicted felon who thrives on portraying himself as a victim,” Phillips said in a post on social platform X Friday.

“@GovKathyHochul should pardon him for the good of the country.”

Because that makes total sense. God forbid Donnie face any fucking consequences. Who gives a shit if his base is pissed let them be. We do not kowtow to fascists.

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    1 month ago

    … and this is why we are much better off with Joe Biden as the Democratic Nominee than Dean Phillips.

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    Fucking hell, I thought this was talking about some Republican named Phillips. The dude is a Democrat?

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        I don’t know what happened to him but I lived in his district and he was a great breath of fresh air as the first democrat to hold that seat in decades. The NW burbs of the Twin Cities have shifted bluer and I hope they keep the seat.

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      From the other posts it apparently isn’t sarcasm and I’m so confused

      I have no idea who this Phillips guy is so must be missing some context.

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          Him being a Democrat and the long list of horribleness followed by ‘he should be pardoned’ is why I initially assumed it was sarcasm.

          Apparently Phillips is just a moron.

          “You think pardoning is stupid?” Phillips, also a former presidential candidate, said in a Saturday post on X. “Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid. (Election charges are entirely different.) It’s energizing his base, generating record sums of campaign cash, and will likely result in an electoral boost.”

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    Yes… I too think we should pardon the criminal who has spent his whole life never experiencing consequences for his actions.

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    But I was assured that this guy was our only chance to resist Biden because Biden was the guy doin a fascist takeover, and we had to nominate someone else instead, who wouldn’t be a fascist. Like Phillips.

    Now I’m all perplexed about it. Surely the people saying that wouldn’t have been lying for some duplicitous reason

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    I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve never seen Dean Phillips and Ron DeSantis in the same room. Anybody know what’s up with that?