John Oliver on Sunday uncovered what he referred to as the “flagrant” hypocrisy on the coronary heart of Donald Trump’s use of the presidential pardon energy.
The “Final Week Tonight” host warned that Trump’s doubtful use of energy is “not more likely to cease anytime quickly,” and he additionally admitted there may be “not a lot that we are able to do” about it.
“Trump likes to rail about how robust he’s with regards to regulation and order,” Oliver famous. “However that toughness is clearly deeply selective as a result of he’ll fortunately put violent folks and fraudsters proper again on the streets to victimize folks once more simply because they assist him.”
Trump’s use of pardons has “escalated sharply,” Oliver famous, with practically 2,000 already issued throughout his second time period in contrast with 238 throughout his first, together with for his supporters concerned within the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
“I do know it isn’t information that America has a two-tiered justice system, however that is taking it to an absurd excessive,” Oliver mentioned. “The best way we’re going proper now, we might properly find yourself at a degree the place we don’t a lot have a system of legal guidelines as a lot as we simply have ‘a man.’ And for those who’re on that man’s crew, you mainly get to commit crimes.”
He added, “However the factor is, that’s simply not the social contract any of us signed up for. All of it is a very, very slippery slope.”