President Donald Trump on Thursday issued pardons for nearly two dozen people who were convicted for blocking access to and temporarily shutting down abortion clinics, some of whom are currently serving federal sentences.

“They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people,” Trump said. “This is a great honor to sign this.”

Trump described the group as “peaceful protesters.” Yet many of them were charged with barricading the doors of clinics with bicycle locks and other implements, pushing and in some cases injuring clinic workers, and preventing patients from accessing health services.

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    Trump would pardon Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski and Charles Manson if they were still alive.

    The volume of the pardons and the crimes of the pardonees are completely incredible. I’m pretty sure if Trump wasn’t POTUS, he would be locked up in a padded cell with a few choice pills to cool off.

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      Well, not sure about Kaczynski. Man had a lot of opinions about leftists but he was above all else an anarchist who wanted to dismantle everything Trump stands for.

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        Well, not sure about Kaczynski

        I couldn’t be more sure about Kaczynski…

        he was above all else an anarchist who wanted to dismantle everything Trump stands for

        You have your priorities all messed up. He was above all else a murderer.

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      The volume of the pardons and the crimes of the pardonees

      He’s making room in the prisons for what he considers to be ‘real crime’ (anything to do with the marginalized or those who don’t support him).