Friday, June 1, 2018

Make Presidential Pardons Great Again

"But Trump is using the presidential pardon the way the Constitution intended: to correct an injustice.

Don Surber  "President Trump is using the presidential pardon the way it should be used: to correct an injustice. The people he pardoned -- Scooter Libby, Joe Arpaio, Kristian Saucier, Jack Johnson, and now, Dinesh D'Souza -- were all victims of malicious prosecution.

"Contrast and compare Bill Clinton's pardons.


  • Roger Clintion, his brother, who served a year for doing cocaine.
  • Marc Rich, a billionaire who was convicted of tax evasion from his illegal sale of oil from Iran. Clinton pardoned him in exchange for a considerable donation to Clinton's presidential library.
  • Henry Cisneros, his secretary of housing and urban development, who committed 28 counts of bank fraud while he was secretary of HUD.
  • Susan McDougal, a friend who took the rap for the Clintons for Whitewater and kept her trap shut about it.
  • Democratic Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, a sleazy Chicago politician.
  • Democratic Congressman Mel Reynolds, another sleazy Chicago politician who also committed statutory rape.
"None of them were railroaded.

"They were pardons on the Family and Friends Plan.

"Two wrongs do not make a right. If Trump does anything like that, I will bust him for it.

"But Trump is using the presidential pardon the way the Constitution intended: to correct an injustice." . . .

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