Trump Declares Biden’s ‘Autopen’ Turkey Pardons ‘Invalid’ at Thanksgiving Ceremony
President Trump declared Joe Biden's pardons for two turkeys last year were "totally invalid" because Biden used the autopen to sign their clemency papers.
cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/37462166
Opening the door to cancelling pardons.
Are you SURE you want to do this, Donald?
Turkey pardons, where every year the President saves two turkeys from being killed and eaten. These do not open the door to anything.
If Biden didn't say "No take backs", then pardons can definitely be canceled. That's what SCOTUS told me.
What is his obsession with “auto pen”?
Projection.
Trying to cast doubt on anything Biden signed into law.
If he's successful the democrats better spend just as much time reversing anything Trump has signed too.
If he’s successful the democrats better spend just as much time reversing anything Trump has signed too.
Narrator voice "They won't."
Ha!
Just need to declare sharpies as an invalid signing instrument and that wipes everything Trump ever did.
And by extension, setting precedent on repealing laws based on procedural nitpicks rather than substance, meaning a LOT more laws might be up for debate.
They should be doing that anyways.
You start with the result you want and work backwards:
C. Everything Biden did should be undone.
B. Biden did something frequently
A. Say any use of innocuous thing is invalidated
You see it a lot online, when people say X is true because of Y. But if they admit Y is flawed, that doesn't change their mind about X. They'll just invent a new reason.
I sometimes think he's just scared of the spooky pen moving like a ghost was using it...
What the fuck is an autopen?
A device presidents have used in the past (and present) to help with signing their name.
On the bright side, banning the auto pen means he would have to sign hundreds of pardons by hand if he needed to, and I think he's just too lazy to do that.
Everything said by this admin is always a declaration of guilt. So, in this context, the 1984-translated version is: "people use my Autopen all the time without my knowledge." Which also explains how when he attended that wrestling event back in the spring, he was also somehow signing and authorizing (whatever terrible thing it was at the time, it's hard to keep track of) at the White House that Stephen Miller I think angrily announced while touching dolls.
Trump has pardoned a bunch more turkeys recently than Biden ever did.
I didn't think there were that many wealthy turkeys.
Only a few months to go.
Those turkeys must be immediately located and arrested! /s
Take the /s out of your statement. If we can get ICE to be distracted with this, they won't be worried about humans.
And I'm ok with that.
Haha! Yes!
There's an episode of Rick & Morty called Thanksploitation Spectacular that you might like. It touches on your idea somewhat.
The concept of autopen is ridiculous, but so is unpardoning turkeys. Then again - so is pardoning turkeys.
This whole country is ridiculous.
Biden still enjoying rent-free residency, I see. Cool.
I find it stupid the guy who signs pardons for bitcoin billionaires he never heard of is accusing somebody of autopenning pardons. OVER TURKEY PARDONS.
How is this a news cycle?
It genuinely sounds so absurd that I'm starting to think that he maybe made a joke
He was absolutely making a joke. The problem is he's the one person that cannot land it. Its like if trump said "sounds like this guy tried to fuck a child beauty queen".
Trump gave out another pardon? This guy pardons more than my deaf aunt.
It's a thanksgiving tradition to pardon a turkey, but he already pardoned Giuliani so he had to find another one
Pretty sure the turkey Trump pardoned was on the Epstein list.
Well now I'm trying to think of turkey puns that relate to epstein....
Trump and the turkey both went "gobble gobble"?
How fucking petty is this turd?!
Secret Service had to tackle and restrain the White House head Chef who confused the Thanksgiving main dish for the President's turkey neck
Nussy.
The obese pedophile rapist felon also called Pritzger 'fat'.
What a f-ing loser lmao... this guy
I read that in Jimmy Pestos voice, talking about Bob.
Ah, who are we kidding? Jimmy Pesto is clearly a red hat with white text wearing S.O.B.
Why pardon the turkeys? What the fuck did they even do?
Besides, you don't pardon your food, you eat them.
Its a silly and harmless tradition. I wasnt aware of it's existence until the movie Free Birds.
They're being pardoned from being eaten
Yes it's silly but sometimes silly is good
He’s such an asshole.
Right? What else could he possibly be celebrating with that but death? "Oh, these turkeys will not escape ME!" Uh, good for you, you Machiavellian shit stain.
nothing like useless complaints from a grandpa
Lemme tell you what’s wrong with your generation.
"We're going back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get turkies off the menu."
Yet Trump can declassify documents by thought alone.
first they came for the turkeys, but I did not speak out because I was not a turkey...
This is fowl play!
What an idiot. Next thing he’ll be calling entire years invalid or some idiotic crap.
Of course cock sucking is completely valid uwu
No! Not these Epstein files! The other ones!
Aaahhh Cheeto, you always know how to ruin every even bby starting to removed about Biden.
I am so happy that I do not live in your head, it must be so sad, so full of hate and anger.
dem turkeys gotta stick together, ya know
Why is this news? Stop clogging up Lemmy with this bullshit distraction from the Epstein files. Who the hell is upvoting this non-story? I'm reporting this post.
... this is Not the Onion, not a serious news community.
I realize that but NotTheOnion is still a place for real news articles.