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  Well. Yeah. He's the saddest president now too
context: I hope to heck that no one pardons that lifetime criminal. >
  
  I strongly suspect the GOP and its non-Trump presidential candidate will offer a federal pardon in exchange for him actively pushing his base behind their candidate (presumably DeSantis).  It's not an offer he will be in a position to refuse, particularly if/when he's indicted.  Either way, at their first opportunity they will absolutely pardon him for federal crimes as they have gone all in on the "we're being persecuted" narrative. >
  
  Up vote for that comment. Though some of his crimes are not pardonable. State crimes. We need accountability to keep this from happening over and over. Plus Trump being behind bars is a very nice thing to visualize. >
  
  Georgia don’t let us down. >
  
  Georgia on my mind. >
  
  I wouldn't count on Kemp. New York is the one to watch. >
  
  The governor of Georgia has essentially no pardon power.  There is a separate board that evaluates claims, and there is a minimum time served requirement.  It is a huge outlier in that way. >
  
  Good to know! >
  
  Trump is not sad.  He makes others sad.  He's evil.  Plain evil.  Learn to recognize such.  Especially from those who make no effort at all to hide that evil. >
  
  The only "sad" aspects of the Trump story are the millions of people he killed via malfeasance when Covid hit, countless thousands who had their lives ruined by his policies, and the fact that he will never face any meaningful consequences for anything he has done. >
  
  Seriously though, when he got elected everyone was like”it’s just 4 years, how bad could he do!” And then covid hit and it was SO FUCKING BAD. A time when we DESPERATELY needed leadership and guidance and we had that asshat. It was honestly such a terrifying experience and I feel like it’s gunna come up in therapy… a lot. >
  
  Oh it was bad well before 2020. His "strong economy" was always a lie, Covid revealed it for what it was. And pretty much all he did was suck up to dictators and authoritarians in other countries. >
  
  I know he wasn’t killing it. But I was still like “ok we can struggle bus through this” until covid hit and it was directly effecting the everyday lives of every American that it got really honestly scary. >
  
  Another #1 for Trump. He keeps racking them up. >
  
  He is a true loser. He only "wins" when he plays dirty, cheats, lies, or throws others under the bus. If his life were a sport, he'd have been disqualified long ago. 
  Trump is the very definition of a loser. Anyone looking up to him is even worse, because they're not lying to anyone but themselves. >
  
  Trumps actions make Watergate look like nothing.
  actually looking back now the whole fuss over watergate seems comical now lol :-p
  omg a president lied about a break in! omg! 
  Trump be like, hold my beer. >
  
  while "saddest" may apply here, I can think of other descriptors:
  "criminal, pathological, narcissistic, appalling, disgusting, weird..." >
  
  I personally don't think saddest even applies to him.   It implies that we should empathetic to what he's done to himself.   Given all the intentional harm he's caused the nation and the world, I feel not a single ounce of empathy for him.  He will not be turned into the victim because of his own narcissistic actions. >
  
  Nixon was able to recover as a “statesman” in the end.  Trump will be bald, ranting in a cell, shitting his diapers. >
  
  Nixon left (relatively) quietly, resigning when he knew it was over, waved, got on a helicopter and went home.  
  I saw an interview with him a couple years before he died, and he was still "plugged in" to world events. Almost like he was waiting for a way back in.  It was sad, because he felt he could still be of service.  
  Trump is just pathetic. >
  
  For all the bravado of Nixon, he understood the gravity of the whole Watergate situation even if he thought he didn't do wrong. 
  Trump cannot accept that Jan 6 had the same gravitas. 
  Nixon also had a few good policies (ending Vietnam, OSHA act, forced desegregation)  whereas Trump was just a stream of steaming bullshit. >
  
  
  
  ending Vietnam
  
  
  You might want to read about the impact the Chennault affair had on the 1968 election before you give Nixon credit for ending the Vietnamese War >
  
  I'm not giving him "credit" for it, just corroborating my point that Nixon knew when to call it quits when public opinion was very against him. That's all. 
  Because it is a fact the Nixon admin ended the war as he was the commander in chief as that's how America works.
  And even if he presided over arguably the bloodiest part of the war the "end Vietnam" thing was still a good policy regardless of his previous ones. >
  
  Donald Trump has managed to lose at being a loser. He and his supporters have some strange obsession with turning every single day into a fixation on losing.