Apparently, the Miami Herald is incapable of producing a web-page that can be viewed by Microsoft Internet Explorer, so I can’t see the rest of Ahnold’s dissembling.
But the facts remain. He commuted the sentence of the child of a political ally, while others in a similar circumstance are left to their just sentences. There is no apologizing your way out of that. There is no spin that makes it less reprehensible.
Better to just say that he did a favor for a friend or as a political pay-off and that the justice of the matter just did not enter into it. At least that would be honest.
This pardon was paying his dues to Rats in order to get an administration job or a Ambassador job. He needed to take care of a lot of Rats before he went out of office.
I would bet that this little Rat Thug will be back in trouble before he even completes parole.