This morning President Trump pardoned Susan B. Anthony during a woman’s suffrage event at the White House:
BREAKING: President Trump will pardon Susan B. Anthony, found guilty by an all-male jury of illegal voting in 1872 presidential election. @CBSNews
— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) August 18, 2020
Here’s a bit more from The Guardian:
The act of executive clemency was announced at a White House ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the US constitution, which expanded the right to vote to women.
Anthony was fined $100 for her illegal act, a half-century before the expansion of the franchise.
“Signing a full and complete pardon for Susan B Anthony,” Trump said. “She was never pardoned.”
Trump had announced his intention of pardoning someone “very, very important” in a conversation with reporters on Monday.
So you would think this would be heralded, or at the very least seen in a positive light considering her crime was voting as a woman.
But you would be wrong. The Lt. Governor of New York called this an indignity and claimed Trump treated Susan B. Anthony “like a criminal”:
As highest ranking woman elected official in New York and on behalf of Susan B. Anthony’s legacy we demand Trump rescind his pardon.
She was proud of her arrest to draw attention to the cause for women’s rights, and never paid her fine. Let her Rest In Peace, @realDonaldTrump.
— Kathy Hochul (@LtGovHochulNY) August 18, 2020
I will be at the @SusanBHouse in #Rochester at 10:45am and will be addressing this indignity in person. https://t.co/KRKfftwKdP
— Kathy Hochul (@LtGovHochulNY) August 18, 2020
Hochul: I was deeply troubled to learn that @realDonaldTrump went ahead and treated her like a criminal . . . Susan B. Anthony was guilty of nothing. @LtGovHochulNY @News_8 pic.twitter.com/wux5d0UfWt
— Rebecca Fath (@rebeccareports) August 18, 2020
You’ve got to be kidding me. This is what hatred of Trump does to people, it makes them completely loopy so that they see evil where there is none. He PARDONED her because she was never pardoned, and Hochul says he treated her like a criminal? If you want to criticize him for doing this to get the female vote, that’s at least a legitimate argument. But to say he treated her like a criminal is off-the-charts absurd. What a deranged lunatic.
While we’re on the subject of deranged lunatics, here’s another example of what Trump hatred will do to people:
This is what hatred will do to you. #PoliticalFantasyPorn https://t.co/eQaBdZnZMY
— ✟ Right Scoop ✟ (@trscoop) August 17, 2020