[boringg]

That can't be real - wow. They were the company that rolled the vehicle downhill to make it look like progress right?

[Animats]

By order of Trump, that never happened.[1][2] Financial claims against Milton are now void.

The Führer is never wrong.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardons-nikola-trevor-...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/pardon/media/1395001/dl

[ourmandave]

The founders argued over the presidential pardon having to much power, and decided that congress's impeachment power would prevent abuse.

[RealityVoid]

Hah! Guess they didn't see these voting patterns coming! They gave you “A republic, if you can keep it.” - I will admit, you gave it a pretty good run.

[pear01]

voting patterns? The founders didn't want most people to vote.

[RealityVoid]

Then they must have seen it even less.

[pear01]

Incorrect. Why do you think they held that view in the first place? Ironic you can't seem to grasp the meaning of the quote you so smugly parroted.

[dantillberg]

> Financial claims against Milton are now void.

Presidential pardons do not limit or prevent private civil lawsuits.

[ketzo]

But pressuring the SEC to drop the civil claims does!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/sec-trump-cle...

[skippyboxedhero]

If you get scammed by a box on wheels being rolled down the road or someone repeatedly saying HTML5 then...you had it coming and it is probably best that someone else uses your money.

Also, CEOs of public companies lie persistently, huge lies that directly cause people to lose money. Nothing happens because that is the part of the game: they lie, you try to work out if other people will believe it for long enough. For startups, because there is no existing revenue, the lies are criminal. There is no distinction in reality.

[ndsipa_pomu]

> If you get scammed by a box on wheels being rolled down the road or someone repeatedly saying HTML5 then...you had it coming and it is probably best that someone else uses your money.

I'd prefer to not give liars and cheats even more money so that they can improve their grifting - this is not behaviour that benefits society at all.

[paulpauper]

yeah https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/nikola-admits-prototype...

[mandeepj]

Check his Instagram! He's portraying himself as a saint, a massive victim, and vowing to sue everyone else, from Nikola for defrauding him :-)