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You can tell the journalist wrote "rages at" in the headline because we'd rip the pish out of them if they said "SLAMS"
“President-elect Trump ELECTRONICALLY PONTIFICATES at Biden over pardons for death row inmates.”
If the headline doesn't at least contain an "eviscerates" or "skullfucks" I won't even bother to read it.
Hey, at least they took 3 seconds to try and be vaguely original.
“Joe Biden’s decision is a clear gross abuse of power. He, and his supporters, have blood on their hands.”
By not killing people? Are they actually insane? I’m guessing just disingenuous bc the whole framing they’re doing glosses over the fact that these convicts are still going to do life without parole.
Yup. The reason most of them are on death row is it takes literally decades of litigation before someone can be put to death (a good thing). By commuting their sentences Biden is saving the taxpayers millions.
Thank god. I was scared they’d try to get luigi killed during Trump’s term as a sort of example.
What makes you think that this action by Biden has any effect on that?
I never said I did. This was relating to the Trump admin.
Not insane, just dishonest assholes.
I say both. Those things aren't mutually exclusive.
I don’t know. Insane implies they’re not responsible for their actions because they don’t know any better.
That isn’t the case these grifters are fully aware of what they’re doing and they don’t care.
He does seem to be losing grasp of reality, in addition to being a grifter. But I can't be making any real judgement about this either.
I guess if you follow the logic that the death penalty is the only deterrent that works, as opposed to just life on prison, Biden just told people that they can crime all they want, you won't get the death penalty.
This is obviously bullshit, but that's the thinking behind the statement.
Death cult.
I have seen posts from Trumpers calling for public executions lately, this insane blood thirst with zero lack of understanding that once that cat is out of the bag, then ANYONE is fair game, utterly astounds me.
I keep thinking that they can't get worse, yet they keep digging despite the bottom of the barrel having long since past.
The problem for MAGAs is that they want public executions for their enemies.
If anyone deserves the death penalty it's Trump. We have proof he sowed sedition and conspired to start an insurrection.
The fact that he's not in a supermax prison is a perversion of justice.
"the children of the revolution will eat themselves"
They think they're not one of "them".
this insane blood thirst with zero lack of understanding that once that cat is out of the bag, then ANYONE is fair game
Honestly, I think "zero lack of understanding," with the cancelling double-negative, might be exactly right. They genuinely want this and revel in the prospect of Trump (ab)using it against his political enemies.
What's the point of scapegoats if you can't torture and kill them?
I'm pretty sure Trump thinks Biden is letting them out of prison.
No, Trump wants his bootlicking followers to believe that.
It's all he wanted for Christmas, nothing like executions to make a dictator smile.
I'm guessing trump will avoid executing Dylann Roof cuz.. ya know. But perhaps he will kill the 31 year old Boston bomber cuz he is a Muslim immigrant.
Biden left the three people Trump wanted to pardon on the list so he could be the good guy for all the Nazis out there. It’s a Christmas gift in the spirit of bipartisanship
Ha ha ha. It is a very merry Christmas.
In defense of trump, it's what white jesus wants
Paywalled.
President-elect Donald Trump reacted to President Joe Biden’s commutation of the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row with befuddlement and disbelief on Tuesday, claiming the decision “makes no sense.”
“Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country,” Trump wrote, in a Christmas Eve post on Truth Social, featuring his usual irregular capitalization.
“When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening.”
On Monday, the White House announced Biden had commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole. Biden left three federal inmates to face execution: racist mass murder Dylann Roof, antisemitic mass murderer Robert Bowers and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The decision was explicitly designed to stifle the death-penalty-loving Trump—who oversaw a modern record 13 federal executions during his first term—before he returns to office.
“In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted,” said Biden, in a statement announcing his decision.
On Tuesday, Trump followed up his original post with a promise to pursue capital punishment once he’s back in power.”
“As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters,” Trump wrote. “We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!”
Trump’s return to office had already raised concern among human rights experts.
“It is near certain that Donald Trump will re-start the federal killing machine where he left off, and we remain concerned about the human rights of those who are still on federal and military death row,” said Paul O’Brien, Amnesty International USA’s Executive Director, in a statement.
Trump’s spokesperson Steven Cheung was even more effusive about Biden’s clemency than his boss, saying Monday that the death row inmates whose sentences were commuted are “are among the worst killers in the world,” excoriating Biden’s “abhorrent decision” as “a slap in the face to the victims, their families, and their loved ones.”
Responses from victims’ families and loved ones, however, has not been unanimous.
Heather Turner—whose mother was killed during a 2017 bank robbery in South Carolina by one of the men whose death sentences was commuted—slammed the decision, writing on Facebook: “Joe Biden’s decision is a clear gross abuse of power. He, and his supporters, have blood on their hands.”
But retired Ohio police officer Donnie Oliverio, whose partner was killed by another man whose sentence was commuted, offered a statement of support: “Putting to death the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace. The president has done what is right here, and what is consistent with the faith he and I share.”
Biden emphasized, in announcing his decision, that he condemns the murderers and grieves for those who suffered losses.
“But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice-president, and now president, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level,” he said.
His act was hailed by human rights experts.
“The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, and President Biden’s eleventh-hour decision before leaving office to commute these death sentences is a big moment for human rights,” said Amnesty’s O’Brien.
Tanya Greene, US program director at Human Rights Watch, said the “courageous decision recognizes the U.S. death penalty has failed to deter crime or improve public safety, risked the execution of innocent people, and runs counter to the belief in the dignity of all human life and the possibility of redemption.”
Biden’s historic commutation came little more than a week after the president granted some 1,500 pardons and commutations to Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern U.S. history. It also followed his controversial pardon of his own son.
Thank you.