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The pardoning of a live turkey by the President of the United States, thus sparing the bird from ending up as a family's holiday dinner, is an annual Thanksgiving tradition that began with U.S. President George H.W. Bush in 1989. In 2018, in an eerie foreshadowing (or, some would cynically say, a telegraphing of strategy) of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned a turkey named Carrots who had lost a fair and open election (i.e., a White House poll) over which of two turkeys should be spared. According to Trump, Carrots was the loser of the election but refused to concede and demanded a recount, and even though the result did not change, Trump mercifully granted a pardon to both Carrots and the winning turkey. USA Today contemporaneously described the 2018 version of the yearly White House holiday event as follows: Even though Peas and Carrots have received a presidential pardon, I have warned them that House Democrats are likely to issue them both subpoenas, Trump concluded. Here's a video of that November 2018 event:
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