Posted on 06/03/2018 7:21:47 AM PDT by deplorableindc
President Trump issued his first prison commutation after lunch with Alan Dershowitz. The men talked about Mideast politics before Trump "asked me what else was on my mind, and I told him. I took advantage of the moment,” the longtime Harvard law professor recalled.
Dershowitz told the president about Sholom Rubashkin, a kosher meatpacking executive who was seven years into a 27-year prison sentence for financial crimes. Not long after, Rubashkin in December became the first — and so far only — person Trump released from prison.
"You have to appeal to his sense of injustice," said Dershowitz, who often says on TV that Trump is treated unfairly in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. "He feels he is now being subject to injustice, and so he's very sensitive to injustices."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The whole point of the pardon is to correct injustice.
The headline does not comport with the article. The body of the article and Dershowitz's comments suggest that Trump will use his pardoning power to correct injustice, unlike, say, Clinton or Obama who seemed to use it to help out their homies or those who buy them off.
How much did Clinton get paid to pardon Marc Rich?
How many drug dealers did 0bama pardon?
Commutation for Blago? Good grief. I hope the President has a better sense of tradition.
This man proves otherwise. Age so often brings on wisdom. That's why I don't believe anyone under 30 should be allowed to vote in national elections.
How about the MSM quote from one of the network hacks, “Trump is handing out pardons like Oprah handing out Pontiacs”. Never mind Obongo releasing a bunch Terrorists who killed a cop.
Every time someone says something to me about pardons I say Mark Rich and Chelsea Manning
“That’s why I don’t believe anyone under 30 should be allowed to vote in national elections. “
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And no one under 30 should be sent off to fight wars./s
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Trump can pardon anyone he wants.
Trump can walk out of the white house with a loaded .45 and shoot the first person he sees.
Don’t care. Changes nothing in my mind.
I’m 100% behind this president.
New reality show. “Celebrity Pardon”
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Rod Blagojevich
Martha Stewart
Hey Allan that’s the idea. Correct injustice.
Giuliani just said that Trump has the power to pardon himself, but won’t.
Trump’s lawyers must be stupid. Why broach that subject and give the MSM the opportunity to run completely wild with it.
Would not talk about Trump pardoning himself be an admission of guilt. I suppose it would be about obstructing justice.
By Monday morning, the issue will be roiling like a piranha frenzy. Case closed. Trump is guilty.
Knowing the whole Blago story, it makes sense. PDJT respects fairness.
27 years? For financial crimes. This sentence does seem pretty excessive. Many murders don't get such a stiff sentence. Sounds like Trump did the right thing.
Have you not figured out yet that the “MSM running around in a frenzy” helps Trump not hurts him?
Geez I expect FReepers to be sharper than this!
That’s the best trait Trump possess as President... He doesn’t need the money. Clinton, Obama... Two shysters from the projects who never had a pot to p*ss in or a window to throw it out of ascend to the highest office in the land and come out it with excessive amounts of wealth... From where, and whom did they receive it and what did they do to achieve it????
Criminality occurring at the highest office level in the land and the socialist media’s response is absent.
Trump comes into office and Obama places a spy within his organization, who in turn comes up with circumstantial hearsay regarding ‘Russian’ contacts and the media screams ‘Watergate’.... Unfortunately they are calling it on the wrong person and wrong party...
Obama has obviously committed crimes while in office that make Nixon’s shenanigans look like a parking ticket. History has a way of catching up with you and hopefully that is the case with Obama and his minions. It’s already caught up to Clinton. He’s now generally regarded as a sleaze and pathetic human-being.
pardoning can be a good thing but any pardon has to be answered to politically and is something an opponent can rightfully point to as being an abuse of the presidential power. I personally think that it should be a power taken away immediately upon losing an election while waiting for the next president to take office. I also believe that in the second term the president has to have any pardon examined and approved by the next incoming president before it is permanent when it is given in the last year of his presidency. the way Trump is pardoning and commuting sentences is all right with me because he can be called to task about it next election.....the way Clinton and Obama did it with pardoning Mark rich and Chelsea Manning was not ok because they could not be called to task about it in a election.
Blago went to jail for political horse trading. His real crime was that he didn't do what the Chicago machine and Obama thugs told him to do.
His father-in-law, Dick Mell, was Daley's enforcer in the city council. You can look up their feud.
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