DIFFERENCE OF OPINION IN INTERPRETING WHAT TRUMP SAID IN REFERENCE TO DEREK CHAUVIN PARDON

Anonymous said... DIFFERENCE OF OPINION IN INTERPRETING WHAT TRUMP SAID IN REFERENCE TO DEREK CHAUVIN PARDON (epoch times)President Donald Trump said March 7 that he is not considering pardoning Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer serving a multi-decade sentence on a range of charges related to the 2020 death of George Floyd. A reporter told Trump in the Oval Office that “your allies are calling on you to pardon Derek Chauvin,” before asking whether he’s considering a presidential pardon. “No, I haven’t even heard about it,” the president replied. “No. I haven’t heard that.” (GRA:"I haven't heard about it," is not the same as "I'm not considering it." Now he's heard about it Trump’s remarks come in the context of a petition launched this week by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who called for a presidential pardon for Chauvin, who is serving a 22½-year sentence for unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter. Floyd’s final moments were captured on video, as Chauvin restrained him with a knee to the neck or upper back area while attempting to arrest him for using a counterfeit $20 bill at a store. “As you know, this was the inciting event for the [black lives matter] riots that caused $2 billion in property damage in cities across the United States and set America’s race relations on their worst footing in recent memory,” Shapiro’s petition reads. “Yet the evidence demonstrates that Derek Chauvin did not murder George Floyd.” GRA:Of course that's Trump's fallback line--"I haven't heard about it,read about it." Project 2025 got the same response. It gets him in off the hook. --GRA Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 6:01:00 PM EST