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I want to again bring attention to James Alex Fields. in 2017 a violent mob of antifa members (terrorists) attacked his car, so he feared for his life and accelerated. An obese woman died of a heart attack after contact. For that, he received 2 life sentences + 419 years.

An antifa professor named Dwayne Dixon, who has now fled the country to avoid the FBI’s investigation of antifa terrorism, literally admitted to chasing James with a firearm. Dixon was also charged with two misdemeanors during a different event, one of which was “going armed to the terror of people.”

Liberals jeered as Fields was sentenced to TWO LIFE SENTENCES PLUS 419 YEARS IN PRISON for accelerating his car in an attempt to escape a violent mob which was bearing down on it, and actively attacking his car in an attempt to get at him. Leftists were literally brandishing firearms at him, and he was sentenced to prison for trying to escape.

And now that an ICE officer shoots and kills a woman who was trying to run him over and kill him, the left is suddenly pretending that attacking people with a car isn’t a real threat. Because it’s only a real threat when a Right Winger bumps a fat woman with his car, and she dies — HOURS LATER — of a heart attack. When radical leftists like Hasan incite the murder of conservatives and conservative politicians, and then try to literally murder law enforcement, apparently it just doesn’t matter.

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So as the left freaks out about a stochastic terrorist getting iced by a federal officer she was trying to run over with her SUV, now is a great time to remind everyone that James Fields is currently on year 8 of his 419 year sentence for giving a morbidly obese woman a heart attack by bumping into her with his car after he panicked when he was surrounded by a baying Antifa mob at Charlottesville.

(Naturally the left went with the deceased's pre-obesity profile pic. Google has scrubbed the less flattering images from search results; I had to use Yandex to find them.)

It isn't terrorism when they do it, you see.

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Posted by hawgfaninc

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Posted on 1/8/26 at 12:02 am to hawgfaninc

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**Yes, President Trump has the constitutional authority to pardon James Fields for his federal convictions**, but **such a pardon would not affect Fields' separate state convictions in Virginia**, meaning Fields would remain imprisoned for life regardless.

### Federal Convictions
Fields pleaded guilty in 2019 to 29 federal hate crime charges (under 18 U.S.C. § 249) related to the 2017 Charlottesville car attack. He received a life sentence without parole from a federal judge. The president's pardon power under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution extends to all "Offenses against the United States" (federal crimes), except impeachment cases. This includes hate crimes and allows pardons after conviction. A pardon could fully forgive the federal offenses, potentially leading to release if only federal sentences applied.

### State Convictions
Fields was convicted in Virginia state court of first-degree murder (of Heather Heyer), multiple counts of malicious wounding, and hit-and-run. He received life plus 419 years, with sentences running consecutively to the federal one. Presidential pardons do not apply to state crimes, as confirmed by Supreme Court precedent (e.g., Ex parte Grossman, 1925) and constitutional text limiting pardons to federal offenses. Only the Virginia governor could grant clemency for these.

### Practical Outcome
Even with a federal pardon, Fields' state life sentence would keep him incarcerated indefinitely. As of early 2026, he remains in federal prison serving these concurrent/consecutive sentences, with no reports of any pardon (Trump issued high-profile pardons in his second term, e.g., for January 6 offenders and pro-life activists, but not Fields). The pardon power is broad for federal crimes but cannot override state justice systems.

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