Posts on Trump’s abuse of pardons

He has pardoned the January 6th rioters and many others. It seems like Trump pardons are basically for sale to rich donors.

In addition to 1500+ pardoned Jan 6ers, 34 of whom have been charged with new crimes, here’s a list of all of the fraudsters and criminals 47 has pardoned. This should be discussed a lot more, hold them all accountable #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue http://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/21/t…

— KSlatteryResist (@kslatteryresist.bsky.social) 2026-02-07T20:02:43.444Z

Dems should be making hay of this!

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) 2026-01-17T20:51:28.676Z

SCOOP: Trump quietly pardoned several people this week, including:▶️A Venezuelan-Italian banker implicated in a bribery scheme whose daughter donated $3.5M to Trump's PAC.▶️A California woman who was freed from prison by a Trump commutation in 2021 & was then convicted in an unrelated case in 2024.

— Ken Vogel (@kenvogel.bsky.social) 2026-01-16T18:01:32.898Z

There are only two offenses the Constitution goes out of its way to specifically say merit impeachment, and this is one of them.

— Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) 2025-12-25T22:47:25.233Z

The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.

— Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) 2025-12-25T16:23:58.631Z

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news…85% of the people granted pardons or clemency this year by Trump are white, and Jan. 6 defendants made up 90% of those who benefited, according to a new report compiled by Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., a vocal advocate for criminal justice reform.

— ▪️Jules▪️ (@northjules.bsky.social) 2025-12-16T20:07:44.493Z

Great Bluesky post on gerrymandering

I agree completely with this. Democrats have to gerrymander everywhere they can. They have to make it so bad for Republicans that they will agree to non-partisan voting districts. Republicans clearly won’t play fairly otherwise.

Absolutely right. Democrats backed a national ban on gerrymandering while Republicans pushed their advantage in key states. This evens things up but also draws us closer to real reform.

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2026-02-07T16:01:10.459Z

More old articles on Trump’s history of racism

Yeah, there's no evidence of his racism…Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020 share.google/cLurvcDnGPtx…

— Lynda Wright (@broncobaby10.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T13:50:20.766Z

Donald Trump was accused of racism long before his presidency, despite what online posts claim (7/28/23)

Trump and racism: What do the data say?

Donald Trump’s long history of racism (11/28/17)

We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker. (10/12/24)

Trump is a racist but mainstream media is too cowardly to say it

The Truth Social post is just the latest example of Trump’s racism. The media is too cowardly to call him a racist. They’ll say his account posted a racist statement. Doesn’t that make him a racist?

The mainstream news media will never call Trump explicity racist. They'll always dodge the allegation. That's because the white people running the joints need to believe that there is a distinction between donig racist things and promoting racist polices, versus being *personally* racist.

— ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T16:52:44.994Z

Bluesky post on New York Times coverage

Racist regime does Racist shit. http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goons-…

— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T05:07:14.794Z

Demonstrating that Trump believes his cult will believe anything he tells them to believe, the White House announced that the shockingly racist meme posted on Trump's Truth Social account was posted by "a White House staffer." It was posted in the middle of the night, so which "staffer" is that?

— Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) (@portlandken.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T20:22:21.699Z

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T20:27:33.337Z

A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT…

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T06:13:18.824Z

BREAKING: President Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash. The White House had defended it but now blames staffer.

— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 2026-02-06T17:57:46Z

A reminder that Trump posted an AI video of federal agents tackling Obama in the Oval Office while he watches and YMCA plays.

— Tim Dickinson (@timdickinson.bsky.social) 2026-02-06T17:48:26.319Z

donald trump is a trickle-down racist http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2026-02-06T14:54:27.120Z

Trump posting a racist video of the Obamas underscores how imagery long recognized as among the most explicit racist tropes in U.S. history have become normalized in the Trump era, @russcontreras.bsky.social writes.

— Axios (@axios.com) 2026-02-06T19:24:55.349Z

Trump’s racism is not new. Here’s an article from 2020.

Allegations of racism have marked Trump’s presidency and become key issue as election nears

Job declines and cuts under Trump

His economic policies are terrible

“The manufacturing boom President Trump promised would usher in a golden age for America is going in reverse… fewer Americans work in manufacturing than any point since the pandemic ended.”www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-…

— Congressman Don Beyer (@beyer.house.gov) 2026-02-04T21:53:04.982Z

There were 108,000 job cuts in January in the U.S., the most to begin a year since the Great Recession in 2009, according to a new report.

— Forbes (@forbes.com) 2026-02-05T15:40:07Z

Job Openings Decline by More Than Expected in December Underscoring weak turn-of-the-year labor market trends…(sans ISM Mfg Employment PMI)but…Alternative private-sector data, however, suggest that job openings increased by 28k in December. GS

— Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT (@mikezaccardi.bsky.social) 2026-02-05T16:54:03.000Z

As layoffs surge and job openings fall, Trump has a talking point he’s excited about: The workforce is the biggest it’s ever been.The trouble is, his talking point means a whole lot less than the data that points to the worst job market Americans have seen in years. http://www.ms.now/rachel-maddo…

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-06T20:26:12.655Z

Trump's "Golden Age for America" is as fake as the Party City decorations he taped to the walls of the Oval Office.

— Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) 2026-02-05T17:55:24.752Z

The job market under Trump's 1st year saw the smallest increase in job creation in 10 years, outside of the 2020 pandemic unemployment spike. U.S. industries haven’t added fewer jobs than were added under Trump since 2013-2014. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/january…

— Layla A. Jones (@laylaayanna.bsky.social) 2026-02-11T19:34:02.388Z

Blusky post on how immigrants have cut the deficits

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.1/3

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-02-04T19:08:08.937Z
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