I don’t know what the current going rate is; we’ll see if Joe Exotic met it. Supporters of Snowden and Assange have only a few hours to get the cash together.

Interesting perspective. What else besides cash would you suspect to be influential?

Well, in hindsight none of them provided enough transactional basis. Mr. Exotic once got 19% of the vote for governor of Florida. Seemed like a natural ally in a swing state. Earlier in Trumps presidency, one explanation for a Snowden pardon is that he would appear on stage at a Trump rally. But, it’s not clear what Assange would be pardoned for. He might be in better shape without the guilt conveyed by a pardon.

> Levandowski but not Snowden or Assange. Sigh.

Snowden and Assange have no value in the market economy. Lewandowski, on the other side, has some interesting skills

Will investors put money on him again? Or is he relegated to working on trump’s personal Twitter replacement kind of projects now? Have a feeling this is the only thing he can do now, go deep maga and suck up to the cult

He has been working on Pronto.ai for the last few years. Nothing will change there.

He’s radioactive though.

He will probably start a company.

Who in their right mind would work for him?

Thielians in their normal mind

And Lewandowski hurt Google, which makes him a good guy according to Trump.

This is much more likely than Trump putting any amount of reasoning into his decision.

Obviously support their pardons but there was little expectation from me that they would considering the government is prosecuting them so aggressively.

Snowden is earnest, so he won't get one.

Assange won't, because Donnie doesn't think he'll be useful again.

Assange has a knack for getting his hands on a lot of dirt. Trump is arrogant and short-sighted enough to believe it will never be dirt on him?

Yes, he is.