Washington Post Op-Ed Begs Biden To Heal America, Pardon Felon-Elect Trump

Happy Thanksgiving and fuck off, Washington Post.

No.

Yesterday, Special Counsel Jack Smith motioned to end his two federal cases against Donald Trump once and for all — for DC District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to dismiss the case against Trump for plotting a coup to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 election and overthrow the government in the process, and to end the appeals that might have reopened the case against Trump for stealing state secrets from the United States government and obstructing efforts to get them back.

Smith didn’t argue that anything had changed about the facts of the case, just the facts of the defendant, based on the Justice Department’s longstanding opinion that sitting presidents cannot be indicted. (Apparently even if they weren’t president when the many indictments came down.)

Chutkan dismissed the election-stealing case without prejudice, which means that in some theoretical happy funtimes world, the case could be reopened again, when Trump is not president.

Ha ha! Maybe our hallowed institutions will one day save us! Ha ha!

Except that our institutions did not stand up to Trump. Our institutions failed. Because of, among other things, Attorney General Merrick Garland being an absolute coward and keeping his thumbs fully ensconced up his ass until it was far too late, Trump will not be held accountable for the untold number of crimes he’s committed against the Republic. Moreover, his stolen illegitimate partisan hack Supreme Court has pretty much ensured that he will not be held for all the crimes he commits in his second term, or crimes he might be committing right now.

However, as Joyce White Vance points out, Trump has not been exonerated, from anything. We still have a lot to fight for, and just as Rachel Maddow said about November 5, history didn’t end that day, and so it didn’t end November 25 when Trump’s cases were dismissed.

Speaking of institutions and other things we still have to fight for, there’s the free press. We’re watching right now as the corporate media has a contest over who can obey the tyrant the loudest and most appreciatively. For example, yesterday, the Washington Post, which beclowned and humiliated itself when it chose not to endorse in the 2024 presidential race, in fear of Trump getting punishing or disfavoring its mega-billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, published an op-ed begging/demanding current President Joe Biden to pardon Trump.

I guess it’s important to the bootlickers that Trump be reassured over and over again that he’s above the law and he got away with it.

Granted, it wasn’t an editorial, but an opinion piece, written by two extremely vapid MAGA idiots. Still, WaPo chose to publish the dogshit. The two moron writers — Marc Theissen and Danielle Pletka — argue that Biden pardoning Trump would “heal” the country.

As if the majority of American citizenry who did not vote for Trump, who loathe the very air he breathes, will be “healed” by watching him get away with it. These two fascist windsocks probably also still believe the lie that Gerald Ford had to pardon Richard Nixon to “heal” the nation.

How quaint. Fucking grow up.

The mainstream corporate media isn’t going to get better, pals. We yell at them all the time — and we should! — but we need to understand that as we enter this next phase of American history, we can’t count on them to be a check on power. Certainly, great reporters at big hallowed institutions will continue to do great work, and it will be vital, but as a whole? We’ll see.

They’re not learning lessons. Hell, just last night, I saw CNN’s Kaitlan Collins — who is good sometimes! — tweeting that Trump was about to put a 25 percent tariff on Mexico and Canada, in essence propping up Trump’s lie/delusion that tariffs are taxes on foreign countries what’s doin’ us dirty, as opposed to a tax on American consumers on all products or components of products made by our two largest trading partners.

You know, in case you were wondering if the mainstream media was going to do better by the voters who are still out there googling “What is a tariff?” since Trump’s been lying to them all these months.

This Thanksgiving I’m grateful that we have an independent media in America — reporters, analysts, pundits, historians, scholars, people who do all these things and even manage to make it funny — and I’m committed as ever to doing my little part to make sure that a year, five years, 10 years from now, we still have an independent media.

I’m taking this week off from Wonkette, and outside of this email/newsletter, I’m taking it off from The Moral High Ground. (Regularly scheduled things will be back next week, on their regular schedule!)

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Happy Thanksgiving, however you celebrate or don’t celebrate or whatever. Just eat some good food, OK?

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