Don’t know about this specific case. But IIRC it is quite normal to have a deadline last chance to withdraw, related to when the ballots are printed. So he likely informally withdrew, but not officially as far as the rules are concerned.
A strangely relevant saying, now that the Republican party has allied with Russia.
Self awareness is not his strong suit.
That assumes that Trump was unaware of the hypocrisy, and would have cared if he had realized. That is a false assumption - Trump is a psychopath, literally doesn’t feel bad about breaking moral norms.
I especially loathe the formulation
has long faced criticism from wings of his party
As if it is he-said-she-said, whether Fetterman has been a total dick. And then the next moment the press will print Trump’s most outrageous and blatant lies with exactly the same “some disagree” type of formulation.
2/3 majority in the Senate.
Democrats are never going to convince enough Republicans to defect, to reach 67 votes in the Senate. So Fetterman indeed doesn’t matter.
People aren’t going to accept “we tried” again.
I can already see people like coming with criticism like “why didn’t the Democrats win that vote that requires 2/3rds majority? Surely because the Democrats don’t truly care. Both sides are the same.”
Which is objectively true. But also kinda besides the point.
There are not really any legal limits on Trump’s pardon power, so what Trump is doing there is technically within the law. In that sense it is quite different from Trump’s fraudulent election fraud claims.
the media should have been stating this shit more often
So we respond by bashing the parts of the media who do actually publish it, even if they are later than ideal?
So I am not a lawyer. But it can’t possibly be the case, that you are not allowed to publicly say something trivially provably true, unless you have a court’s word that it is true. That would effectively mean that there is zero free speech.
Because it is very expensive to get sued if they get it wrong.
If someone openly commits murder, you are in fact allowed to say they did it without saying “allegedly”. Otherwise there would be no free speech, it would mean you could not say anything that was not already whitelisted by the state.
Which is true and all. For many things.
But if I just want to decode some JSON for a computer game, it is nice to just be able to do it on a website, with no need to install anything.
Though not having to download and install a random program from the Internet, with full access to your hard disk, is often nice. When running in the browser, it is automatically sandboxed hard.
Seriously, they could have left out specifying in the title that he is a Republican, and we would still have known he was a Republican. I am not being facetious.
Even if there was an arrest warrant, Guantanamo is still a concentration camp and not a rule of law prison. So sending an American citizen there would still be fascism.
I sadly assume she literally has no shame.