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    Full list of Trump's pardons Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on January 20, 2021, 8:05 am

    Warning, link is to the Daily Heil.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9166683/Trump-grants-minute-clemency-143-people.html

    It's interesting that in a brief search the Heil is the only place that has a short summary of each case rather than just the few well known ones. Almost as if they were given a list before time or given a press releae.

    Having said that, the summaries all concentrate on the sort of pleading your lawyer throws at the judge to try and shave some years off your sentence: "He's a devoted parent/Grandfather", "A reformed character", "No previous convictions", "He led bible study groups while in prison" blah blah blah. What the summaries don't say much about is the actual crimes they were covicted of and when you do some searching on that, they are almost always more serious than the impression given in this list. Lots of white collar criminals, bank fraudsters, Ponzi schemers mixed in with several "non-violent drug offenders" and a couple of rappers to make it look worthy.

    I wonder how much Dumpster made from getting these pardons over the line....and they wonder why people think the justice system in the U.S. is utterly corrupt.

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