Posted on 06/06/2018 10:11:06 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
BREAKING NEWS: Trump FREES drug offender grandmother who Kim Kardashian begged him to pardon and commutes her life sentence
Alice Johnson, 63, had her life sentence commuted, meaning she can be freed from federal prison
She was convicted of being part of a drug-smuggling ring - and sources say a dozen more pardons or commutations could follow
Kim Kardashian made a trip to meet Trump and beg for a pardon for Johnson at an Oval Office meeting
The president is said to be 'obsessed' with his power to issue pardons
President Donald Trump has freed a first-time drug offender and grandmother whose case has been championed by reality TV star Kim Kardashian.
He commuted the life sentence of Alice Johnson, 63, after the personal plea in the Oval Office from the reality star.
Trump met with Kim Kardashian last week to discuss Johnson's case in the Oval Office. The White House shared a picture of Kardashian and Trump, who was grinning from ear to ear, after the meeting that reporters were not allowed anywhere near.
Johnson's attorneys had prepped Kardashian for the meeting with Trump where she begged for clemency for the for the great grandmother.
A lawyer for Johnson did not return a request for comment.
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Commuting a Grandma’s sentence costs Trump nothing.
It was a smart move.
Alice wasn’t pardoned. Her sentence was commuted!
The author seems to conflate the two. Or doesn’t understand the difference.
I heard this great-grandmother has a bad rep when it comes to drugs, but I haven’t researched it enough to really know if it’s just gossip or not.
So now he is “obsessed” with giving pardons. These people are beyond ridiculous. They have become parodies of themselves.
How many drug dealers did Obama pardon? Hundreds.
I love it!
Trump Pardons a black lady friend of Kim Kardashian and Kayne West will be telling his XXmillions of fans...MAGA!
Liberal brains explode.
How pardons did Bill Clinton “sell”?
“The president is said to be ‘obsessed’ with his power to issue pardons”
So the DNC and MSM says he is obsessed. That must mean he is.
He commuted their sentences...put them right back on the street......1,715 of them!!
Clinton grants pardon for his drug-offending brother
By James Langton in Washington
12:00AM GMT 21 Jan 2001
IN his final executive act as president, Bill Clinton yesterday dramatically pardoned more than 100 Americans including Susan McDougal, his former Whitewater business partner, and Patty Hearst, the former terrorist.
Miss Hearst, the granddaughter of the newspaper baron, William Randolph Hearst, had served three years in prison after joining the left-wing Symbionese Liberation Army that kidnapped her in 1974. Mr Clinton also pardoned his own brother, Roger, who was convicted for cocaine possession in Arkansas and who was among a number of drug offenders that Mr Clinton believed had been punished too harshly.
There was, however, no reprieve for Webster Hubbell, a former partner in Mrs Clinton’s Little Rock law firm who was convicted as a result of the Whitewater investigation. There was also no pardon for the former junk bond king Michael Milken who also served a prison sentence for fraud.
Mr Clinton had delayed announcing the pardons from Friday until yesterday morning. A row over Miss McDougal’s inclusion is thought to have caused the delay. Miss McDougal, a Clinton friend from Arkansas, spent 18 months in prison after refusing to give evidence that might implicate the President and First Lady in a bank fraud while he was the state’s governor.
No one expected Mr Clinton to go quietly, but the final hours of his presidency proved to be as full of drama as a Hollywood film script. The outgoing president’s longest day threatened to overshadow the inauguration ceremonies for George W Bush as arguments raged inside the White House over whether to pardon key figures in investigations into alleged corrupt financial dealings by the Clintons.
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How do the media get away with plopping down these turds out of the blue. Who "says" ???
President Trump performs an act of mercy and it is belittled as an obsession with his power.
I don’t know... it could start to look like: If you know a celebrity, then you score a ‘get out of jail free’ card.’
How does that look to everyone else? I mean -is the message ... we need to know the right people to break the law with impunity?
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