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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(121,672 posts)
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 02:29 AM Mar 5

Elon Musk doubles down on Ben Shapiro's plea for Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin

Source: New York Daily News

Elon Musk amplified controversial podcaster Ben Shapiro’s plea for President Donald Trump to pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chavin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

Shapiro on Tuesday suggested that “if we are issuing pardons … there is one person that President Trump should pardon from federal charges forthwith.”

“The inciting event for the BLM riots that caused $2 billion in property damage in the United States and set America’s race relations on their worst footing in my lifetime was, in fact, the railroading of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd,” Shapiro claimed.

He added that Chauvin — who’s concurrently serving a federal sentence of 21 years and 22 1/2 years on state charges after pleading guilty to depriving Floyd of his civil rights and being convicted by a jury of murder and manslaughter in 2021 — is actually innocent.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-doubles-down-ben-001700961.html



Everyone saw what he did. Even some of his fellow officers testified against him. What else do you expect from a racist South African?
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Elon Musk doubles down on Ben Shapiro's plea for Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 5 OP
Anyone still have doubts that Musk is a racist? NEOBuckeye Mar 5 #1
No doubt whatsoever 😡 benfranklin1776 Mar 5 #7
they want to start a race war. lapfog_1 Mar 5 #2
Comrade Krasnov's wet dream kkmarie Mar 5 #10
They can't pardon the State charges montanacowboy Mar 5 #3
That was my thought too. So thanks for affirming it. Maraya1969 Mar 5 #8
illegal Kali999 Mar 5 #4
Nazis gonna Naz. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 5 #5
Too bad Lt. Aldo Raine is a FICTIONAL character.... ProudMNDemocrat Mar 5 #18
GI Robot from Creature Commandos would like to help out too SunImp Mar 5 #19
Jesus what a pathetic piece of racist shit 💩 Musk is. benfranklin1776 Mar 5 #6
We will need uniforms BidenRocks Mar 5 #9
When will this nightmare and outrage end? Betty Boom Mar 5 #11
The goal is to cause violent chaos liberalgunwilltravel Mar 5 #12
Already sentenced on state charges so this is bullshit--at least until TSF manages to get a MAGAT governor hlthe2b Mar 5 #13
Only Tim Walz can pardon the state murder charges, and there's no way, so Chauvin would still be imprisoned gilpo Mar 5 #14
Just to create headlines question everything Mar 5 #15
We all know for sure that if he could, HE WOULD! bluestarone Mar 5 #16
Did he leave a criminal behind? travelingthrulife Mar 5 #17

lapfog_1

(30,798 posts)
2. they want to start a race war.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 02:35 AM
Mar 5

BLM will go absolutely bonkers over this. They will call out the national guard to start killing protesters.

Kali999

(157 posts)
4. illegal
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 02:45 AM
Mar 5

Like Tina Peters on Colorado. Violation of state rights. Good luck with that. Kieth Ellison and Walsh got something to say about it. Like fuck off for a start

benfranklin1776

(6,808 posts)
6. Jesus what a pathetic piece of racist shit 💩 Musk is.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 02:52 AM
Mar 5

His inner flaming Nazi laid bare in all its obscene ugliness. Desperately trying to whitewash a cold blooded murder in service of his twisted and demented agenda to create a new Fourth Reich. Fuck Musk to hell 🤬

12. The goal is to cause violent chaos
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 06:18 AM
Mar 5

So Shitler can declare martial law. He might find out that if he does that, the military may well turn on him. But as others have pointed out, Shitler can’t do squat about the state charges.

hlthe2b

(109,150 posts)
13. Already sentenced on state charges so this is bullshit--at least until TSF manages to get a MAGAT governor
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 07:38 AM
Mar 5

to pardon him.

gilpo

(723 posts)
14. Only Tim Walz can pardon the state murder charges, and there's no way, so Chauvin would still be imprisoned
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 07:43 AM
Mar 5

Chauvin is serving a 22-and-a-half-year state sentence for second-degree unintentional murder, alongside a concurrent 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd's civil rights. May he rot in prison for the entire 22.5 years.

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