Musk And Shapiro Want Trump To Pardon Chauvin For Killing George Floyd

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The moment President Donald Trump was sworn into office for his second term and made one of his first orders of business to pardon or commute the sentences of more than 1500 Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, we just knew it was only a matter of time before not-remotely-closeted white nationalists started calling for him to pardon George Floyd‘s convicted murderer. On Tuesday, WAPless boy blunder Ben Shapiro mused that Trump should pardon ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, and — wouldn’t you know it — the White House’s resident pro-apartheid immigrant, Elon Musk, cosigned Shapiro’s call for a killer cop to be absolved of the murder millions of people watched happen on camera.

Something to think about https://t.co/KbZQEMpFXP

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 4, 2025

“If we are issuing pardons, however, there is one person that President Trump should pardon from federal charges forthwith,” Shapiro said in a video he recorded. “President Trump should, in fact, pardon Derek Chauvin.”

“But when it came to BLM, the inciting event for the BLM riots that caused $2 billion in property damage in the United States and set America’s race relations on their worst footing in my lifetime was, in fact, the railroading of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd,” he continued.

Now, listening to Shapiro obnoxiously repeat the words “in fact” during a factless diatribe was annoying enough, but this delusional white man is really out here suggesting that a jury found Chauvin guilty because America was intimidated by Black Lives Matter protests, the overwhelming majority of which were nonviolent. When in the entire history of America has any court of law felt compelled to throw a white cop in prison for two decades because pro-Black protesters were really passionate about the Black man the cop killed?

Anyway, Musk unsurprisingly reposted Shapiro’s video along with the caption, “Something to think about.”

Of course, one thing that neither Shapiro nor Chauvin appear to be thinking about is the fact that even if Trump did pardon Chauvin for his federal crimes of depriving Floyd of his civil rights (and that of a 14-year-old Black child he also egregiously brutalized), which Chauvin pleaded guilty to, it still wouldn’t set him free. Chauvin is serving a federal sentence of 21 years, but he was also sentenced to 22 1/2 years on state charges, which the president can not legally pardon.

Still, two separate juries found Derek Chauvin guilty, and it would be an absurd miscarriage of justice if Trump disregarded the federal jury’s ruling and pardoned a civil rights-violating murderer.

Of course, Trump’s entire administration is arguably a miscarriage of justice, so…

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