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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust to watch heads explode, the question I'm BEGGING someone in the media ask...
It won't happen but this is the question I'm BEGGING someone in the media would ask:
"Speaker Pelosi, have you considered offering Vice-President Pence a pardon as an encouragement for him to come clean now?"*
Just to watch heads explode. You know how fast that would go around the world of the Reich-wingers?
Pelosi's response (with a smile and sarcasm): - "Oh! Well...that would be wrong!"
Meanwhile across town:
"Mr. Vice-President, is there any truth to the rumor that you are considering accepting the Speaker's offer of a pardon...?"
Just to watch Trump's head explode.
Can the baby-Jebus love me this much?
* Assumes that, ultimately, both the orange demagogue and the giant Q-tip resign making Pelosi president.
ecstatic
(32,712 posts)of all time.
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)Ido not recommend.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)she could perhaps make a deal not to impeach in exchange for testimony, but who knows what the snake would say.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)which would make her the president. That's where the exploding heads part comes in.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)I know that's what you meant, but they'd both also have to be convicted for that to occur, of course.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)The likelihood of this happening is very slim, but it's fun to imagine.
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)that's never going to happen
Captain Zero
(6,811 posts)Nt
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)PatSeg
(47,501 posts)Trump pulls that kind of crap all the time and I'll bet he'd fall for it from someone else.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)If Pence is deserving of impeachment, he should be impeached. A pardon shouldn't even be a consideration.
We're having a difficult enough time convincing people that Trump should be impeached. Throwing a pardon for Pence into the mix would only complicate matters.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)It's important to know things, so you don't propose things that can't occur.
Nancy Pelosi knows that, so she would never make that mistake.
MoonchildCA
(1,301 posts)Pence gives up the goods on Trump and himself, they are both removed from office/and or indicted, she becomes president and pardons him.
Vinca
(50,278 posts)"Would it be proper for a Democratic president to ask a foreign leader for dirt on a political opponent?"
Duppers
(28,125 posts)"Mr. Vice-President, is there any truth to the rumor that you are considering accepting the Speaker's offer of a pardon...?"
Pelosi would not even need to be asked a question.
Of course it doesn't have to be true -- and of course, the journalist asking must be willing to end their career but wouldn't that be the greatest send off of the decades!! It would cause such great havoc that it most likely would be the tRump's tipping point -- he'd go totally ballistic.