Trump Commuted the Sentence of a Violent Felon that Jared Vetted. It Went Badly.

[Anonymous]

As POTUS, Trump bypassed the DOJ and instead followed Jared’s recommendations about pardons, clemency and commutations— including commuting the sentence of a felon with a long history of violence. What could possibly go wrong? (Besides domestic violence, elder abuse, predatory lending, threatening rabbis, narcotics on airplanes etc. etc.).


Yes— let’s definitely go back to making decisions this way. MAGA amirite?

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[Anonymous]

Dude, stop foaming at the mouth and learn how to spell.

[Anonymous]

Where is that "protect the women and children" party now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As POTUS, Trump bypassed the DOJ and instead followed Jared’s recommendations about pardons, clemency and commutations— including commuting the sentence of a felon with a long history of violence. What could possibly go wrong? (Besides domestic violence, elder abuse, predatory lending, threatening rabbis, narcotics on airplanes etc. etc.).


Yes— let’s definitely go back to making decisions this way. MAGA amirite?

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The Harris-Walz should get the wife on a ad asap.

[Anonymous]

This was horrid for many reasons — the man’s history of violence is ghastly and the shameless way people were able to buy pardons galling — but my jaw dropped at this:

“The commutation also dealt a major blow to an ambitious criminal investigation being conducted by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan that was trying to hold predatory lenders who were fleecing small businesses accountable.

In the days before Mr. Braun received his commutation, prosecutors and his lawyer were in negotiations over a deal in which he would be let out of prison in exchange for flipping on industry insiders and potentially even wearing a wire. But the commutation instantly destroyed the government’s leverage on Mr. Braun and the investigation sputtered out.”

[Anonymous]

OP - you seem to be cherry picking one example by Trump. What about all of the other Presidents and their pardons/clemency grants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - you seem to be cherry picking one example by Trump. What about all of the other Presidents and their pardons/clemency grants?

Who are also criticized by their opponents for cherry picked pardons and commutations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was horrid for many reasons — the man’s history of violence is ghastly and the shameless way people were able to buy pardons galling — but my jaw dropped at this:

“The commutation also dealt a major blow to an ambitious criminal investigation being conducted by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan that was trying to hold predatory lenders who were fleecing small businesses accountable.

In the days before Mr. Braun received his commutation, prosecutors and his lawyer were in negotiations over a deal in which he would be let out of prison in exchange for flipping on industry insiders and potentially even wearing a wire. But the commutation instantly destroyed the government’s leverage on Mr. Braun and the investigation sputtered out.”

Wow. So we know why Jared and Trump wanted to pardon this guy. Completely from self interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As POTUS, Trump bypassed the DOJ and instead followed Jared’s recommendations about pardons, clemency and commutations— including commuting the sentence of a felon with a long history of violence. What could possibly go wrong? (Besides domestic violence, elder abuse, predatory lending, threatening rabbis, narcotics on airplanes etc. etc.).


Yes— let’s definitely go back to making decisions this way. MAGA amirite?

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Disgusting, but on brand for MAGA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was horrid for many reasons — the man’s history of violence is ghastly and the shameless way people were able to buy pardons galling — but my jaw dropped at this:

“The commutation also dealt a major blow to an ambitious criminal investigation being conducted by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan that was trying to hold predatory lenders who were fleecing small businesses accountable.

In the days before Mr. Braun received his commutation, prosecutors and his lawyer were in negotiations over a deal in which he would be let out of prison in exchange for flipping on industry insiders and potentially even wearing a wire. But the commutation instantly destroyed the government’s leverage on Mr. Braun and the investigation sputtered out.”

Wow. So we know why Jared and Trump wanted to pardon this guy. Completely from self interest.

And he probably paid them both for it after the fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As POTUS, Trump bypassed the DOJ and instead followed Jared’s recommendations about pardons, clemency and commutations— including commuting the sentence of a felon with a long history of violence. What could possibly go wrong? (Besides domestic violence, elder abuse, predatory lending, threatening rabbis, narcotics on airplanes etc. etc.).


Yes— let’s definitely go back to making decisions this way. MAGA amirite?

Gift Link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/politics/jonathan-braun-assault.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU4.S4uU.9cCoHbTeklYy&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Thanks for the gift link.

Disgusting behavior all around. I wonder if Jared thought any of his or his father's and Trump's actions would come up if Braun went with the deal. It lines up with the theory that Donald is running to avoid jail time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As POTUS, Trump bypassed the DOJ and instead followed Jared’s recommendations about pardons, clemency and commutations— including commuting the sentence of a felon with a long history of violence. What could possibly go wrong? (Besides domestic violence, elder abuse, predatory lending, threatening rabbis, narcotics on airplanes etc. etc.).


Yes— let’s definitely go back to making decisions this way. MAGA amirite?

Gift Link.

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Thanks for the gift link.

Disgusting behavior all around. I wonder if Jared thought any of his or his father's and Trump's actions would come up if Braun went with the deal. It lines up with the theory that Donald is running to avoid jail time.

Is there any doubt of this?

[Anonymous]

A bigger deal should be made of this and the $10 million bribe from the Egyptians. But I guess DonOld has done so much crazy and shady stuff it’s hard to keep up and to not get desensitized by all of it.

[Anonymous]

Trump also commuted the sentence of a cop killer who went on to be convicted of attacking his wife.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - you seem to be cherry picking one example by Trump. What about all of the other Presidents and their pardons/clemency grants?

Well when the other Presidents make "this one immigrant committed a crime so now we need to deport them all" a central part of their platform we can talk about them, but for now Trump is the only President running on that.