Posted on 05/29/2025 6:47:52 PM PDT by skyman
The guys attorney worked with Trump in the past. Can someone help me understand why Trump would pardon this guy?
This just looks and smells bad.
Some of these pardons make no sense at all.
Yeah this doesnt sound like a good pardon by Trump.
The Culpeper County sheriff pardon looks and smells bad as well. Sometimes Trump makes things very difficult for us.
> “My very first gut reaction to hearing that pardon was what a terrible lesson to teach your boys,” Phil Cowley, an Utah pharmacist, said. <
He’s right. I can’t see how it can be argued otherwise.
Trump is spot on with so many things. But some of his pardons frankly stink. Not quite to the level of Biden’s pardons. But they stink nevertheless.
Oh, well. I guess we can’t expect perfection.
But we can hope for it.
“Yeah this doesnt sound like a good pardon by Trump.”
Still better than Mike Huckabee, as he claimed to be able to read the minds of murderers and rapists prior to pardoning them - needless to say Huckabee didn’t read very well. Hopefully Trump doesn’t slip-into the Huckabee mindset, due to the same malady.
Unless you track the donations, I suspect.
I remember when he pardoned Alice Johnson in his first term. They acted like she was sent to prison for a long time because she got caught with a joint. WRONG!!! She was a big coke dealer.
I can only guess on that pardon that it was to help get the black vote. Some of the others just don’t sound logical.
The more I think about these pardons, the more concerned I am.
A presidential pardon is meant to right a wrong. It is not meant to advance a political goal, or to protect friends and relatives. Biden shamelessly used his pardon power for all the wrong reasons.
Is Trump going down that same road? If so, I will certainly still strongly support him. But a bit of the luster will be gone.
> WRONG!!! She was a big coke dealer. <
Yep. Her behavior destroyed many lives, and many families. Either Trump got bad advice on that pardon, or he just didn’t care.
Either way, it was far from his best moment.
I don’t get it, either.
But, one thing in his favor is he did at least fess up and plea guilty, rather than deny it or blame it on someone else, etc.
If he robbed all 16 and was convicted or pled guilty in all 16, then why just 2 years sentence?
In a Truth Social post, Trump said he was issuing a full pardon to former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins, who was convicted in December 2024 on charges that he handed out auxiliary deputy positions for money. Jenkins, who was set to report to prison on Tuesday, disputed the accusation and conviction, saying the prosecution was motivated by his conservative views.
So what evidence do you have that the charges were true, and not contrived like they were with Trump?
But she is just a nice and kind grandma who spends her days making quilts for the homeless and brings in stray dogs.
Apparently some people believe it.
From the article, it didn’t sound like he was serving time for the pharmacy break-ins. Something about federal gun charges. I don’t know the details, but seems like the article was written in a way to intentionally confuse the issues. Does anyone know the true story?
“This just looks and smells bad.”
No kidding. MAGA is pro law & order and this won’t sit well with all the people who have supported Trump. What in the world might be the upside to pardoning a thug like this?
I’m not going to reduce my comments by comparing to anyone else. And Huck Fuckabee is a RINO putz. Its not good.
Trump doesn’t need to start making unforced errors now. Thats all I am saying. Its not going to help him get other things done. Or get him support to get things done.
It’s the President’s prerogative. NOTHING compares to EVERY Brandon autopen preemptive pardon and clemency.
> What in the world might be the upside to pardoning a thug like this? <
I can’t think of any other reason than a naked political reason. Shore up the black vote. And as I mentioned earlier, a presidential pardon is meant to right a wrong. It’s not meant for anything else.
I’ll chalk this up to Trump getting bad advice. Because if it’s anything else… I don’t want to go there.
Let’s all pretend we know the whole story. Wouldn’t want our soap boxes crushed.
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