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The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.”
The replacements came after online commenters seized on striking similarities in the president’s signature across a series of pardons dated Nov. 7, including those granted to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon.
In fact, the signatures on several pardons initially uploaded to the Justice Department’s website were identical, two forensic document experts confirmed to The Associated Press.
I mean, we’ve already accepted the idea that he’s handing out pardons to people who commit crimes on his behalf and outright selling pardons to others without much fuss. At that point who cares how he’s signing the documents?
He’s literally admitted he has no clue who Changpeng Zhao, someone he pardoned, even is. If you can’t name the pardoned crime nor the person, is he of sound mind to be entrusted with that power?
It does make you wonder whether Trump even signs these orders, or whether Stephen Miller just prints Trump’s signature on them in his crypt of Nazi evil.
In any sane time, that admission alone would spark multiple Congressional inquiries, and maybe even an impeachment trial. But now, we just add it to the pile of impeachable things that this Congress lets slide because their guy is doing it.