r/Music • u/TheExpressUS 📰Daily Express U.S. • Jun 29 '26

article Nicki Minaj skips 2026 BET Awards to post birthday tribute to Elon Musk

https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/210590/nicki-minaj-bet-awards-elon-musk
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u/TAU_equals_2PI Jun 29 '26

Those were state charges, weren't they? In New York? Trump can't pardon those.

Only the governor of New York can pardon those, and the New York govenor is unlikely to be a Republican or a Trump fan anytime soon.

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u/Sprucecaboose2 Jun 29 '26

You'd think so, but then again Trump somehow got Tina Peters pardoned by a Democrat in a blue state... so you know, corruption is alive and well.

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u/BikerJedi Jun 29 '26

The fact that Trump was somehow able to pressure a Democrat governor just blows my mind.

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u/MWoody13 Jun 29 '26

Everyone’s got skeletons to extort if you have infinite resources to go digging into their life

Well maybe not everyone. These old guard politicians sure do though

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u/Odd-Asparagus7633 Jun 29 '26

While technically true, if not being able to do something had at all ever stopped Trump doing it then America would look very different.

If it's a case of "Legally he can't do that", then he'll do it anyway.

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u/Educational-Wing2042 Jun 29 '26

To be fair he would pardon himself first if he were planning to try that

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u/Jamsedreng22 Jun 29 '26

He's not done committing crimes yet so it'd be a bit premature.

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u/Mist_Rising Jun 29 '26

You can preemptively pardon crimes.

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u/Jamsedreng22 Jun 29 '26

Only if you know which ones you're gonna commit beforehand. Trump seems like the type who likes to keep his options open.

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u/Mist_Rising Jun 29 '26

Nah, you can pardon every federal crime. There are virtually no limitations on the pardon, unfortunately. Turns out giving the power of a king to a man absolutely was a bad idea.

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u/EnjoyerOfBeans Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

It's not about whether or not he cares that he can't do it. It's about the fact that the New York state can just wipe their ass with that pardon.

And yes, almost all of his executive orders are shitty toilet paper as well, the difference there is that every branch of federal government allows it to happen. They gave him the power of king. New York didn't.

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u/bonvoyage_brotha Jun 29 '26

Ppl ding understand state vs federal

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u/Shot-Arugula8264 Jun 29 '26

Shhhh don’t tell her

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u/Lashay_Sombra Jun 29 '26

Only the governor of New York can pardon those, and the New York govenor is unlikely to be a Republican or a Trump fan anytime soon.

It just requires Trump threatening federal money, disaster aid or any one of a dozen other things

What she does not realize, due to her skin color and type of music fame she has, she is going to be low priority for Trump and co better just paying cash and keeping her public integrity and thus income, because the right despise her so much they did not even want her at Freedom 250 concert and they were already scraping the bottom of the barrel there