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?
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?
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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 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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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.
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
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.”
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?
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