Trump pardons 5 NFL players who didnt ask, maybe to curry favor with NFL fans before midterm elections

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675305001/

Liz Oyer, the former pardon attorney in the Biden Department of Justice, discussed Trump's decision to pardon five former NFL football players, one of whom was deceased, last week during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with Joanna Coles. She argued that there was no legally justifiable reason for the pardons and noted that the five players were surprised to have been granted pardons because they had not applied for them.


A former federal pardon attorney flagged the "cynical purpose" of President Donald Trump's latest batch of pardons during a podcast interview on Monday.

But there seemed to be a higher purpose for the move, Oyer argued


"He clearly thought that there was some constituency that he could ingratiate himself with by pardoning these former football players, but there really wasn't any specific request," Oyer said. "It seems like for the pardons, there wasn't any specific need that he was addressing. He just decided to do it, probably for some cynical purpose that involved appealing to a certain constituency of maybe NFL fans."

The move occurred as Trump and the Republican Party are gearing up for a midterm election that is shaping up to be contentious, at best. Trump has alarmed election experts with his efforts to take election data from the Fulton County, Georgia, election offices. He also threatened to send ICE agents to polling centers during the midterm election itself.

[fargone]

1. Not very interesting without names

[PCIntern]

2. "This thread is useless without pictures."

😂😂😂😂😂

[Ilsa]

3. And how will the victims of their crimes feel

about this? I assume their could be individual victims to some of the offenses.
"Tough on crime."