Trump Upset With Hurricane For Not Doing More To Boost Pardon Ratings

So on Friday evening, we were quick to suggest that Donald Trump strategically timed his pardon of “Sheriff Joe” (a fun-sounding nickname that belies the fact that the man it refers to ran what he called a “concentration camp” for Hispanics only minus the Zyklon B) to coincide with Hurricane Harvey making landfall.

Presumably, Trump knew that if pardoning Joe already registered a 7/10 on the “controversial decisions” meter, the Charlottesville fiasco had surely pushed it up to a solid 9. But having promised to make it happen three days earlier at a rally in Phoenix, he was obliged to follow through. And so, the idea would be to squeeze it in while the media was squarely focused on a Cat 4.

Well, according to Trump, he was indeed thinking strategically about the timing of the pardon – only in the exact opposite way that everyone assumed.

Listen below as the President seems to say that he was actually attempting to piggyback on a devastating hurricane to boost the “ratings” for something that prior to Trump, no one would even think about in terms of ratings….

Now I guess, if you really wanted to, you could interpret that as Trump “proving” that he wasn’t trying to hide the pardon behind a hurricane.

But if that’s what he was trying to do then he chose the worst possible way to communicate it – he could, for instance, have just said this: “I wasn’t trying to hide it.”

Of course Trump could always give this another go. He could un-pardon Joe, wait for the next natural disaster, and then pardon him again.

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