Trump’s big pardon announcement
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For those of you not watching at home, Trump spent much of yesterday “teasing,” as they say in the biz, a BIG PARDON he was going to issue today. Who could it be? Flynn? Snowden? Blago? Nathan Bedford Forrest?
President Donald Trump paid tribute Tuesday to the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment by announcing he would grant a pardon to suffragist Susan B. Anthony.
Anthony was arrested for voting in 1872, violating the laws then that said only men could vote. Yet, “she was never pardoned,” Trump said.
“She got a pardon for a lot of other women,” he said. “And she didn’t put her name on the list.”
With first lady Melania Trump at his side, Trump signed a proclamation commemorating the 100th anniversary of the amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
“It was a monumental victory for equality for justice, and a monumental victory for America,” he said.
Trump last week announced his support for a bill that would create a monument in Washington to honor suffragists and the 19th amendment.
The legislation by Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., would establish a 22-foot monument called “Every Word We Utter” to pay tribute to women who fought for their right to vote. It would include depictions of Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida B. Wells and Alice Paul.
Neguse is a former student of mine and a good guy. I’m sorry to see his name dragged inadvertently into this episode of Who Wants to Be a Fascist Dictator?
Mark Burnett should be deported to the Falklands.