> It was wiped away with a phone call. In March 2025, Trump called Milton to tell him he had signed an unconditional pardon. Milton had styled himself as a political victim of the Biden administration, and Trump agreed.

Birds of a feather flock together.

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PearlRiver 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Party of family values (just don't ask what goes on behind the front door).

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cheema33 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Milton had styled himself as a political victim of the Biden administration, and Trump agreed.

That and a $1 million donation. He bought his pardon fair and square.

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chneu 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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dsr_ 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The average dog has slightly less than 4 legs; the modal dog has 4 legs. If you call a tail a leg, it's still not a leg, so no dogs have 5 legs.

What the President believes is not, has not been, and cannot be the basis of law. If it were, the President would be a king.

	▲	lo_zamoyski 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> What the President believes is not, has not been, and cannot be the basis of law. Yes, but... > If it were, the President would be a king. First, rape is an immoral act that the law does and should punish. It is a factually bad thing, regardless of whether a legal system recognizes it as such. Second, pace the legal positivists, the law is a determination of the moral law within particular circumstances. It is not arbitrary without becoming false. As the old legal maxim goes, lex iniusta non est lex: an unjust law is not a law. This means justice is presupposed by the positive law; the latter exists in the service of the former. Third, kings are not God. They are not the basis for the law in the sense that they can simply legislate anything they want. One reason I've already given: a valid law can only be a determination of the natural law; declaring dogs to have five legs is meaningless. Another reason is that kings were bound by tradition, custom, and various feudal contracts. In Europe, the Church also kept kings in check. In countries like Poland, the king increasingly became more "presidential" in the sense that the sovereign could not enact any laws without the consent of the nobility (per the Nihil Novi Act [0]). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihil_novi
	▲	lovich 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The line between president and king has stopped being neon bright and started to look blurry under this admin.

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vkou 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've no doubt that he believes it is possible for his political enemies to commit it.

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worksonmine 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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muwtyhg 15 hours ago | parent [-]

You seem to be making an assumption on what comment the OP is referring to. Could you provide us the quote you think has "gone through many rounds of telephone"?

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worksonmine 10 hours ago | parent [-]

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	▲	lunchbucket 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No, consent was assumed. He makes it very clear that he doesn't ask for consent. "I don't even wait." "You can do anything." We don't even need to speculate about what he meant; he assaulted E. Jean Carroll. This is open and shut.
	▲	evan_ 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Post the whole thing. > I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.
	▲	ashtonshears 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Shame on you