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I think, in general, it's possible to get a view of how an Executive Order is signed by looking at the example of the H-1B $100k fee signing (which we now understand to be far more constrained than it first appeared). Here's a video https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1969157504211808579 where President Trump's "we need more workers" is contrasted with his aides' statements.

It would appear the these things are less an act of the President as a fully informed person making decisions and more of the final rubber stamp on something that staff that he's picked have decided on.

Given that, I wouldn't expect him to personally know what he is signing. If, as I suspect, these pardons are pay-to-play deals, it's someone else managing the operation under his guidance and he's just the guy with the pen so to speak.



Trump's personal, newfound multi-billion dollar crypto fortune is hosted by Zhao.

I don't mean to be breaking any etiquette her by re-indicating this, but it's I think it's unreasonable to suggest that Trump could not know who this person is.

This is Trump's new 'personal banker' , who doesn't have to play be the constrained rules of $USD denominated financial regulations.


You wouldn’t expect Trump specifically to know what he is signing or any competent President in the same situation?


That was already clear from his last term, and he's much less lucid this time around.




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