Posted on 11/26/2023 9:58:52 AM PST by Angelino97
A drug dealer who had his prison sentence commuted by Donald Trump has returned to loan sharking as his family's ties to Jared Kushner might have helped get him free, according to a report.
Staten Islander Jonathan Braun, 40, had served two-and-a-half years of his decade-long sentence for running an illegal marijuana cartel when the former president set him free along with 142 others.
Braun is accused of returning to offering high-interest loans despite nationwide bans on the practice, according to the New York Times...
Braun was in the inaugural class of the Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston, New Jersey, which was funded by the family of Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, according to the New York Times.
A source told the Times that in 2020, the accused loan shark's father - Jacob Braun - approached Kushner's father - Charles Kushner - about the possibility of securing a pardon from the then-president.
Others who dealt with Braun told investigators his family helped secure his prison release through their connections with Trump's senior advisor at the time, Jared Kushner, and his family, per the Times...
It was revealed that just months after Trump freed him, Braun allegedly began preying on borrowers again by offering loans, according to New York's Attorney General and the Times.
A New York judge barred Braun from working in the industry the same month, and weeks later, he was hit with a nationwide ban following a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission.
'Mr. Braun and his company targeted small business consumers with an egregious array of tactics, from predatory contract terms to violent threats, and the court’s opinion is a significant win on their behalf,' Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection said in an October 2023 release.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Trump believes in second chances. Now this guy has used his up.
But we don’t know the complete circumstances of what went on. But do know he was a target as are ALL of the pardons.
This assertion runs counter to the facts
Here’s an article from January 14 about people being sought after and arrested
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/politics/notable-arrests-capitol/index.html
Here’s an article from January 17, 2021, about 125 protestors being arrested: ”More than 125 people have been arrested so far on charges related to the violent insurrection led by supporters of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol, where a Capitol police officer and four others were killed.”
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-alaska-media-riots-709fca95f4e3dce9e40c440d96dcd006
Not nearly harsh enough!
Rather than answer you choose to insult me!
I was just asking a question. I support Trump. Nowhere did I say Trump was breaking the law! If anything, I was supporting the idea that a pardon can be done unilaterally. If you don’t know admit you don’t know!
Note Forbes says nothing about an application for pardon for Bannon.
There is not a mention of an application for a pardon in regard to Nixon either!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon
Trump didn’t create the J6 problem, so stop blaming him for the outcome. “If” is for children.
It was a big mistake when Trump asked his daughter and son in law for advice on anything.
We have been through this over and over, and this thread is over.
BAD DOG, BAD! *whap* *whap* *whap* *whap* *whap* *whap*
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“And ensuring that they were replaced in Washington DC by Democrats.”
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and you believe this because Donald Trump will return to the Whitehouse instead of Ron desantis?
𝘖𝘩 𝘯𝘰...𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨...𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘥!!!!
I wasn’t a huge fan of some of his pardons, but over the past three years we’ve had God knows who coming through our southern border, and a legion or prosecutors in several states who will not prosecute crimes. These people want me to go fetch my clutching pearls, and position myself in front of the fainting couch because Trump pardoned some a-hole who went back to loan sharking. GTFOH with that!
Rather than answer you choose to insult me!
1. I don’t think that threatening violence comports with the civility rules on is site.
2. Here’s an article from January 17, 2021, about 125 protestors being arrested: “More than 125 people have been arrested so far on charges related to the violent insurrection ***.” https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-alaska-media-riots-709fca95f4e3dce9e40c440d96dcd006
Well well...... Live your life as best you can, make as
few mistakes as possible and let your self conscience
be your guide.
If by some MIRACLE some Good Goy, I mean Good GUY Aliens intervene and Donald Trump overcomes the Repugnic-nt Party, the Democrat ballot harvesting, Chinese interference, AI hooked up to electronic machines, and mail in ballots, and becomes President, Ja-vaaaaaahnka must not be allowed in 500 feet near their daddy.
And the Jan. 6th prisoners die in prison.
I believe the chances of Trump returning to the White House are virtually nil.
But in the highly unlikely even he does return to the White House, here's what's going to happen. And feel free to mark this post.
Trump is gonna go full libtard. Yep! You heard it here first.
A lame duck from Day One, he won't need his MAGA base anymore. They're of no further use to him. Under the bus they'll go. Jared and Ivanka will move back into the West Wing to ensure his administration is ridden of those embarrassing MAGA types just like they did the first time. After all, they'd like to once again be welcomed back into the Manhattan social scene that they were ostracized from. Ivanka has no use for Walmart-shopping Magadonians. She's not one of them.
So now Trump starts working with Democrats. Why? Because even though he's a lame duck, he still has the business empires that he'd like to pass down to his children someday. So he cuts deals to sign favorable legislation in exchange for the throttling back of the lawfare that's been draining his pockets.
You don't think Trump will sign an assault weapon ban? I think he'll do it in a heartbeat if the quid pro quo is right.
There will be no retribution. No scorched-earth vengeance. There will be Trump shifting to the left to save his own hide. It'll be Christmas for Democrats.
LOL! Not likely. At all.
But like your sense of humor. Keep on!
And where did those articles come from?
His prior actions on initiating a ban on bump stocks would support your prediction. He used administrative power - deep state power - to make that happen.
Yep. And his advisors had to step in and tell him to knock off the gun ban talk if he wanted to get re-elected.
He'll have no such constraints in 2024. After all, Trump has always been an old-fashioned New York liberal. He just figured out how to ride a populist/nationalist platform to victory.
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