They didn't pay the bribe or tickle the diapered royal pink starfish properly. The Just Us system operates on the principle of favoritism with selective privilege/retribution rather than consistent fairness. They're perfectly fine having the DNI being a Russian mole and 47 rolling out the red carpet for a sanctioned war criminal.
In this day and age, MAANG, lacking integrity and values, bet on flattery and bribery as business expenses to ensure favorable treats instead of being punished.
Exactly. Now that the facade of being a country with integrity and equality is thoroughly shattered, good luck getting public support for shutting down a website that lets people read news for free. Shit's on fire yo; we got bigger problems than that.
IMO this is more an indictment of the president being able to pardon (any president, not just current one).
IMO the president should, at best, be an additional appeals round. (But probably just not involved in the Judicial because separation of powers is good)
But archive.is ... that people use to read and be informed about the world around them, better get that guy.