{"id":24252,"date":"2019-03-01T15:14:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24252"},"modified":"2019-03-01T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:14:47","slug":"presidential-campaign-2020-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/03\/01\/presidential-campaign-2020-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Campaign: 2020 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reluctantly thinking about the 2020 Presidential Campaign, so I suppose I’ll kick off the fun with a look at Senator Warren (D-MA) and her latest campaign ploy. I had recently mentioned that she’d made the mistake of venturing<\/a> in President Trump’s territory, but her new tactic seems to be an attempt to dictate where a future battle will be fought, as found on her blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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So let me be perfectly clear, in the way that everyone who might be President next should be: If I\u2019m elected President of the United States, there will be no pardons for anyone implicated in these investigations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone who might succeed Donald Trump as president should adopt the same policy. Starting with Vice President Mike Pence.<\/p>\n

This means no pardons or commutations for anyone who is prosecuted and sentenced as part of the Mueller investigation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In order to move away from Trump’s use of the pardon, and thus away from his field of battle, she defines its use:<\/p>\n

The pardon and clemency powers are supposed to be about granting mercy to the powerless\u200a\u2014\u200anot immunity for the powerful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A populist phrase that might catch some attention in Trump’s populist base. On the other hand, it’s also a veiled threat to the current Republican leadership, as toothless as it might be. She’s saying she’s expecting more guilty pleas and convictions.<\/p>\n

It’ll be interesting to see how the Republicans react. Dispassionately analyzed, it’s a bit hollow, isn’t it? But for those who may have pursued their ambitions without inhibitions, it must seem menacing.<\/p>\n

In the end, though, I would have been more impressed if she’d made a slightly different promise: to not pardon Democratic office-holders for crimes while in office. And then to express the belief that there won’t be any cases to consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reluctantly thinking about the 2020 Presidential Campaign, so I suppose I’ll kick off the fun with a look at Senator Warren (D-MA) and her latest campaign ploy. I had recently mentioned that she’d made the mistake of venturing in President Trump’s territory, but her new tactic seems to \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24253,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252\/revisions\/24253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}