Posted on 12/23/2020 5:56:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump on Dec. 23 issued pardons for another 26 people, among whom are former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and longtime adviser Roger Stone. He also pardoned Charles Kushner, a real estate developer and the father of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
The president also commuted part or all of the sentences for three other people.
The latest actions, coming just after Trump arrived in Palm Beach, Florida, for the holiday season, marks a second wave of clemency actions in the last two days, and brings the number of people Trump has pardoned or commuted sentences for to 49.
Manafort and Stone were among several Trump associates who faced charges as a result of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The White House announced that Manafort’s sentence stemmed from convictions prosecuted in Mueller’s investigation, which was “premised on the Russian collusion hoax.”
Trump’s pardoning of Manafort spared the long-time Republican operative from serving the bulk of his prison term of 7 1/2 years.
“Mr. Manafort has already spent two years in prison, including a stretch of time in solitary confinement—treatment worse than what many of the most violent criminals receive. As a result of blatant prosecutorial overreach, Mr. Manafort has endured years of unfair treatment and is one of the most prominent victims of what has been revealed to be perhaps the greatest witch hunt in American history,” the White House statement reads.
“As Mr. Manafort’s trial judge observed, prior to the Special Counsel investigation, Mr. Manafort had led an ‘otherwise blameless life.’ Since May, Mr. Manafort has been released to home confinement as a result of COVID-19 concerns.”
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Fantastic news. :-)
Trolin, Trolin, trolin.
Democrats be like...
Paywall
Noticeably absent is Michael Coen. He, he, he
hehe
TBH I am not ecstatic about this, because it seems to indicate PDJT is resigned to resigning.
Mr. President, leave the pardons to the end of your second term, please.
I saw that too. Trump is BIG on loyalism.
Nuts!
“Hi Donald. This is Mike Coen. How you doing?”
**Pres. Trump cuts off the speakerphone, turns to Hope Hicks, and says “Mike Coen?....I don’t know him, hang up!”
No Assange or Snowden.
Good....Manafort and Stone....the two who were arisen in the early morning by a team of commandos....Disgusting..
Good, good, good, good!!!!!
Cohen has been in home confinement since May...and will serve out his sentence there.
Mueller wasn’t investigating crimes, he was manufacturing crimes.
They knew two days after it started that Hillary paid for the russia dossier but they kept I’m going for two more years.
“ “Mr. Manafort has already spent two years in prison, including a stretch of time in solitary confinement—treatment worse than what many of the most violent criminals receive. As a result of blatant prosecutorial overreach...”
This is representative of what is the meaning, boiled down to its essence, of Trump’s presidency. Who is sovereign? Is it the people or is it the government itself? Do we have a government of, by and for the people, or a government of, by and for the government? The government has spent this entire time, committing many crimes and frauds, in order to reassert its sovereignty. And apparently it has as the people have backed down in confusion caused by the government’s pervasive propaganda and its appeal to expertise and “authority.” These are among the casualties of the government strong-arming its way to sovereignty.
Presidents generally issue pardons at the end of the year.
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