Trump Teases A Pardon For A ‘Very, Very Important’ Person

President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at the White House August 12, 2020. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump apparently has a new bombshell pardon in the pipes.

“Doing a pardon tomorrow on someone who is very, very important,” Trump said during a press gaggle on Monday evening, according to Reuters.

The President told reporters that it would not be his former adviser Michael Flynn nor NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Though Trump did not disclose who the pardon recipient would be, his former confidant Roger Stone, whose criminal case Trump has persistently attacked before commuting Stone’s sentence, abruptly dropped his appeals case against his criminal convictions on Monday night after the President made the remark about the pardon.

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  1. Himself?

  2. “Doing a pardon tomorrow on someone who is very, very important,”

    The criminally inclined Individual1 has and is dangling pardons, pardoning or commuting his undeserving criminal BFFs or those with similar crimes he has done or plan to do…

    BUT

    The criminally inclined Individual1 has done nothing to protect our soldiers from his BFF’s bounty killings!

  3. Avatar for vonq vonq says:

    Shiny Object! Reality TV stunt. Keep your eyes on the prize.

  4. Today I am pardoning a wonderful powerful man, a beautiful man really. The FAKE NEWS has been critical of him for many, many years as if every time someone in Russher falls out a window it’s his fault.

    I am issuing an official pardon from the President of the United States of America. I, Donald Trump, pardon Vladimir Putin, the President of Russher.

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