Joining torturer Joe Arpaio…
Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D’Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1002197913282457600
It is hard to overstate what a naked abuse of the pardon power it is for the president to use it almost exclusively to reward criminal members of his own party.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) May 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1002183500005543936
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1002185438633787393
.@PreetBharara in 2014 said D’Souza’s illegal campaign contributions was “wilfully undermining the integrity of the campaign finance process…he has had to answer for this crime – here with a felony conviction.” https://t.co/KwDZYyy7P9
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 31, 2018
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4 responses to “What a naked abuse of the pardon power”
But hang the Central Park Five…even once they’ve been shown to be innocent of the charges against them. Wait. They weren’t rich, were they? (Or white, but not so relevant here, since D’Souza is Indian).
His base isn’t going to like the headline: “Trump pardons immigrant felon!”
He’s a frigging Renaissance Pope.
“Unlamented, Sixtus IV had achieved nothing for the institution he had headed except discredit.”
Barbara Tuchman, The March of Folly