At this time is Election Day for a very powerful midterm elections since… effectively, the final midterm elections. And midterms earlier than that. And midterms earlier than that. Midterm elections are necessary, and midterm elections could make or break a presidency. This time, Donald Trump has already damaged every thing and he’ll go full throttle, if and when there’s a blue wave. Properly, as a lot as I need to imagine that Trump is totally gone, he has these uncommon moments of sly lucidity that catch me off guard. On Monday, he introduced that if Democrats took again the Home, he would difficulty a large pardon to his workers. And Elon Musk.
President Donald Trump vowed to guard Elon Musk and stated he would contemplate preemptively pardoning the world’s richest man and different White Home aides as Democrats put together for investigations in the event that they take management of the Home of Representatives.
“It’s speech, but when it’s speech, we’re going to have to guard them,” Trump stated in a podcast interview with the New York Submit when requested about the opportunity of Home Democrats arresting Musk and seizing his belongings in the event that they achieve energy.
Trump has stated he’ll difficulty a preemptive pardon to Musk, a detailed ally, and different potential targets of Democratic investigations if he believes it’s obligatory to guard them, even when they haven’t been formally charged with crimes.
“That is what Biden did. He pardoned everybody,” Trump stated. “I’d do it if I wanted to, after all. I would not even give it some thought. I did it for J6.”
The podcast interview, which aired Nov. 2, comes as Democrats are heavy favorites to take management of the Home within the Nov. 3 midterm elections, which might give them management of the investigating committees.
[From USA Today]
I defended Biden’s pardons, particularly for Hunter Biden and Dr. Fauci, just because Trump had already made “marketing campaign guarantees” to go after the Bidens, Dr. Fauci, and anybody who labored for Biden. For instance, Biden’s pardons had been actually a preventative measure in opposition to malicious and politicized prosecutions. Trump’s potential pardons are supposed to assist his mates escape prosecution — and even easy surveillance — for all of the rattling crimes they’ve dedicated. Both method, it is not likely the menace Trump thinks it’s. I do not care if he forgives Musk or any of the MAGA excessive command. All of those individuals should nonetheless be introduced earlier than Congress and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the regulation. There are forgiveness workarounds.


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Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and senior advisor to the President of the US, speaks in entrance of a gaggle of Tesla autos with U.S. President Donald Trump on the South Garden of the White Home in Washington, DC, March 11, 2025. President Trump stated he would purchase a Tesla to assist Tesla and Elon Musk after latest assaults on Tesla charging stations and calls to boycott Tesla merchandise. (Picture by Samuel Corum/Sipa USA) That includes: Donald J Trump, Elon Musk The place: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 11 Mar 2025 Credit score: Samuel Corum/POOL by way of CNP/INSTARimages.com
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President Donald Trump, proper, participates in a press convention with Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and
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United States President Donald Trump speaks throughout the signing of an govt order reevaluating childhood vaccines within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, DC, August 10, 2026. Though the chief order nonetheless recommends vaccinating kids in opposition to 11 ailments, together with measles and polio, it requires limiting vaccines for different ailments, equivalent to hepatitis A and B and meningococcal illness, to high-risk populations. That includes: President Donald Trump The place: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 10 Aug 2026 Credit score: POOL by way of CNP/INSTARimages.com
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United States President Donald Trump delivers remarks throughout a Metal Throughout America occasion on the Ellipse That includes: President Donald Trump The place: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 08 Sep 2026 Credit score: Annabelle Gordon/POOL by way of CNP/INSTARimages.com
