Posted on 07/12/2020 4:51:35 AM PDT by karpov
Bill Clinton pardoned his own brother for felony distribution of cocaine. And a key witness in the Whitewater scandal for which he and Hillary Clinton were under investigation. And three others convicted in independent counsel Ken Starr’s probe. And Marc Rich, in what was a straight up political payoff. And his CIA director. And his HUD secretary. And eight people convicted in an investigation of his Agriculture Department.
No surprise there: The Clintons and their supporters then, like Trump and his supporters now, regarded the special-prosecutor probes into the administration as witch hunts.
Clinton also commuted the sentences of convicted terrorists, some of whom hadn’t even asked for clemency. Shameless as he was, though, even he couldn’t bring himself to pardon Oscar Lopez Rivera, the defiantly unrepentant FALN leader.
President Obama took care of that.
Obama also commuted the sentence of a U.S. soldier who passed top-secret information to WikiLeaks. He pardoned his former Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman, who’d been convicted of making false statements about a leak of classified information to the New York Times. And when he couldn’t get Congress to amend federal drug laws the way he wanted them amended, Obama used the pardon power to slash hundreds of sentences, under an executive initiative later sharply criticized by the Obama-appointed DOJ inspector general.
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More proof Mitt Romney is an ass.
The Incredible Shrinking Mueller Report.
Robert Mueller has an Op-Ed in the Wash Post today. Stunningly pathetic. And yes, Mitt Romney is the biggest loser in the entire GOP, which really is saying something.
******No surprise there: The Clintons and their supporters then, like Trump and his supporters now, regarded the special-prosecutor probes into the administration as witch hunts. ******
The big difference here, is that the Trump investigations actually were witch hunts. The Clinton ones were genuine criminal investigations, and Slick Willie should have spent long years kn prison.
Whitewater, 11 counts perjury, 4 counts obstruction of justice, Paula Jones..and I haven’t even mentioned her thighness yet...
The day before he left office, Clinton accepted an agreement that would yank his law license and other conditions, so he would not be prosecuted. He also paid Paula Jones $850,000 to drop her legitimate lawsuit. Just try to tell me you’re innocent if you’re willing to shell out that much hush money...
His long list of 11th hour pardons was yet another Clinton scandal.
Hillary’s claim of a “vast right wing conspiracy” was just more politics. Draw attention away from their own guilt. The Trump “witch hunts” really were...ummm...are...just that.
The Democrats are not amnesiac. They just hope everyone else is.
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