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Trump pardoning a bunch of crooked people doesn't look good

Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:02 pm
Posted by Northwestern tiger
Long Island NY
Member since Oct 2005
23485 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:02 pm
What the hell is he doing!!!!
Posted by Eli Goldfinger
Member since Sep 2016
32785 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:03 pm to
I don’t get that move at all.
Posted by DarthRebel
Tier Five is Alive
Member since Feb 2013
21259 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:03 pm to
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What the hell is he doing!!!!

Posted by tigeraddict
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2007
11813 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:04 pm to
he is throwing cover for the Flynn & Stone forthcoming pardons
Posted by Vacherie Saint
Member since Aug 2015
39498 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:04 pm to
I just heard about Blago on the radio. I don’t think he’s pardoned him but simply commuted his sentence.
Posted by Dale51
Member since Oct 2016
32378 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:05 pm to
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What the hell is he doing!!!!


Smoothing the road to pardon Flynn and Stone against accusations of political bias?
Posted by SCLibertarian
Conway, South Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
36092 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:05 pm to
Pardons don't look good to most Americans because we as a country love mass incarceration and the idea that the longer the prison sentence, the better.
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
27570 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:05 pm to
He's showing that he has that power.....it's pretty frickin absolute and it's a message.
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
69312 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:05 pm to
Pardoning and commuting are different things.

Please learn the difference.


As for blago.....downvote away, but the sentence was excessive

He was a dirtbag and I don’t support commuting it, but 14 years was very surprising

He has already served 12 years anyway.
This post was edited on 2/18/20 at 1:08 pm
Posted by Jbird
In Bidenville with EthanL
Member since Oct 2012
73446 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:06 pm to
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commuted his sentence.


President Trump on Tuesday said he had granted clemency to Rod Blagojevich (D), the disgraced Illinois governor who had served roughly half of a 14-year sentence on federal corruption charges.

"I did commute his sentence. So he’ll be able to go back home with his family after serving eight years in jail,"
Posted by Dale51
Member since Oct 2016
32378 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:08 pm to
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we as a country love mass incarceration and the idea that the longer the prison sentence, the better

Good one!
Posted by RidiculousHype
St. George, LA
Member since Sep 2007
10207 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:09 pm to
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Rod Blagojevich (D)


Trump shoring up those bipartisan creds
Posted by Jjdoc
Cali
Member since Mar 2016
53473 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:09 pm to
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What the hell is he doing!!!!


Securing a cooperating witness.
Posted by OchoDedos
Republic of Texas
Member since Oct 2014
34114 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:11 pm to
Blagojevich's sentence was commuted, not absolved. Blagojevich served over half of the sentence, and Trump thought the sentence was excessive and the Prosecutor Fitzgerald is big buds with Comey. It's more of a finger in the eye to that Justice Department crowd.
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
112508 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:12 pm to
It's been 3 years now, NW. You still haven't learned. When Trump does something strange people say 'OMG!!!'.
Then, later on, you realize he was right. He knows what he is doing.
Posted by Apollyon
Member since Dec 2019
2124 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:12 pm to
Bingo.

Blago is a massive player in the crooked Chicago machine.

This is a clear message to Obama's regime.
Posted by Sobaka94
Tampa
Member since Jul 2017
248 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:13 pm to
he's definitely showing signs of tertiary syphilis.
Posted by SeeeeK
some where
Member since Sep 2012
28077 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:13 pm to
he's drunk with power, and this is stupid. You do it in your last year in office, not in year of elections.

For every 5 steps he takes forward, he takes 2 steps back with stupid shite.

He has a lot of Juice, and he's using to pardon shitheads and Roger stone. terrible
Posted by SCLibertarian
Conway, South Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
36092 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:13 pm to
Kwame Kilpatrick got like 28 years for crimes related to his stint as mayor.
Posted by Jbird
In Bidenville with EthanL
Member since Oct 2012
73446 posts
Posted on 2/18/20 at 1:16 pm to
POTUS says that he pardoned Bernie Kerik. Kerik was former NY City Police Commissioner. He pleaded guilty to two ethics violations and admitted taking a $250,000 interest free loan from an Israeli Billionaire and failed to report it.

— Edward Lawrence (@NewsEdward)
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