Posted on 06/07/2018 7:44:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Jack Johnson and now Alice Johnson.
The LEFT is apoplectic over this.
What’s up with Obama? Check wasn’t big enough?
Booker was despicable with his comments. Fortunately he’s illustrating just how insane the left is these days.
Is she black? And was in prison for a non-violent drug crime? This is the sort of sentence that the liberals complain about all the time.
I’m not up on all the nuances of sentencing for drug crime. But sounds like the liberals should be happy that he took such an action in her case.
What did she do to warrant a life sentence? I can only find “a non-violent drug offense”.
This is the damage of the special counsel investigation. It allows the leftist media to spin everything and anything under the fraudulent cloud of “the Russians did it.”
This and “Trump is boorish” is all they have. No ideas of their own.... just “Russia, Russia, Russia, we’ll raise your taxes, cops are bad, MS-13 are people too, and Russia stole the election because you were too stupid.
Good luck with that.
She deserved a pardon. Trump stepped up and gave it.
Bravo to Trump.
God speed, Mrs. Johnson!
RE: What did she do to warrant a life sentence? I can only find a non-violent drug offense.
The article states: Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who has spent over 20 years in prison for non-violent drug crimes.
Sounds like enough punishment to me.
But Clinton pardoning terrorists who actually murdered people is fine and dandy.................
Leading a multi-million dollar drug ring?
Question is this — Is 20 years in prison enough?
Yes, Alice Johnson is Black. Altice went to jail on Conspiracy charges in 1997, under Clinton. Typical of that day for Blacks, heavy sentences for conspiracy crimes. Trump freed her. As he should have. The heavy sentences for drug charges have always been wrong. And yes the Left should be celebrating this, but they aren’t because in reality, they don’t care about Alice. They would have never freed Alice
In my opinion, no, 21 years is simply a good start. However I do love how the media spins this by describing her as a “grandmother with a non-violent drug conviction.” Yeah, that’s one way to put it. Another would be “grandmother who was a kingpin in an international, multi-million dollar cocaine smuggling ring”.
The woman should have rotted in prison or been deleted from the planet. I love how people classify major drug rings as just some non violent crime.
Trump screwed the pooch bigly on this one just to suck up to some trash.
I know he has a need to be liked but he needs to stay with his promises.
Cue barking moonbat Leftard:
I hate Trump
I hate Trump
Anything he does is evil
Anything he’s for I’m against no matter what it is.
We hates Trump. Hillary is supposed to have the Precioussssss!
She she wasn’t pardoned. Her sentence was commuted. She still has a prison record.
... a Sorosian shibboleth....
+++++
Love that one.
Thank you. This is the first I’ve seen of what she was actually charged with. Non-violent drug offense makes it sound like she had a roach floating around in the bottom of her purse.
I’m torn. On the one hand, justice is not equal. celebrities, politicians and certain criminals with connections seem to be able to skirt the system consistently, especially when it comes to sentencing. Then there are the cases where the sentence seems over the top in comparison (not necessarily in practicality).
So, to what extent is this politics? I am not sure. It seems helpful from the campaign and “vote getting” angle. I don’t know anything about the case. So I am going to abstain from having an opinion either way, I guess.
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