https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...ch/story?id=69049748

I wonder if it will actually happen this time....it's been close before but Trump pulled back at the last minute...

Drain the swamp!

For the record none of his pardons are close to being as bad as Obama’s pardon of the unrepentant Puerto Rican terrorist.

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Originally posted by jon-nyc:
For the record none of his pardons are close to being as bad as Obama’s pardon of the unrepentant Puerto Rican terrorist.

How might one grade such a thing?

Subjectively.

But this guy lead an organization that bombed targets in the US over 100 times.

And he was doing this during a time when Puerto Rico was consistently voting to remain part of the US.

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Originally posted by jon-nyc:
Subjectively.

But this guy lead an organization that bombed targets in the US over 100 times.

And he was doing this during a time when Puerto Rico was consistently voting to remain part of the US.

I do not know this story. Did Barak ever give a reason for why he decided to pardon the guy?

I don’t know that he did. Defenders of the act pointed to his age and spun it as burying some old hatchet with Puerto Ricans. Like showing them respect by releasing their old warrior, bygones being bygones and all.

But that story really failed if you remember that the vast majority of Puerto Ricans of that era were not in favor of independence. Independence always polled less than 5%. He wasn’t Puerto Rico’s valiant decolonization warrior. He was a man that used extreme violence to try to fight for something that Puerto Ricans repeatedly and soundly rejected in fair and open democratic processes. He was fighting against the expressed interest of Puerto Ricans, and using bombs to do it.

And what is really key is he never repented. He always considered himself a political prisoner and anti-colonial hero. Still does, I’m sure.

Right up Trump's alley, someone fawning all over him.

https://www.politico.com/news/...p-commutation-116018