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Will trump pardon Joe Exotic?
Poll ended at 20 Jan 2021, 4:54 am
Yes 40%  40%  [ 2 ]
No 60%  60%  [ 3 ]
Total votes : 5

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20 Jan 2021, 6:43 pm

Yep. Only the governor of Oklahoma (I think that that is the state where all of that mess happened) could pardon Tiger Joe anyway. But when both get out of the Pen Trump could appoint Joe Exotic to his cabinet.



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20 Jan 2021, 6:50 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Yep. Only the governor of Oklahoma (I think that that is the state where all of that mess happened) could pardon Tiger Joe anyway. But when both get out of the Pen Trump could appoint Joe Exotic to his cabinet.


This is patently false. Joe Exotic was tried in a federal court for a series of mostly federal crimes and resides in a federal penitentiary. State governors have no power to pardon at the federal level, just as the President can't pardon at the state level.

A federal jury found him guilty on two counts of hiring someone to murder Baskin in Florida, on eight counts of violating the Lacey Act by falsifying wildlife records, and on nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act by killing five tigers and for selling tigers across state lines.

Again, I've got this thing with people who declare their misguided and incorrect assumptions to be factual.



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20 Jan 2021, 6:54 pm

oh...bummer.

Then Trump lost an opportunity to pardon...America's greatest animal abusing murder committing reality TV star! 8O :(



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20 Jan 2021, 9:23 pm

my question du jour is why do so many of us pay rapt attention to sociopaths?



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20 Jan 2021, 9:29 pm

Trump was too busy decided that news reporters aren't subject to minimum wage laws since they're work is "creative." :roll:


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