Contrary to Politically Corrupt Media’s overly emotional, ignorant hand wringing, our Founders never assumed the Jury or a Court to be the end all, be all, arbitrators of Justice. That why they set up a Constitutional Republic with a carefully thought out systems of checks and balances instead of a Direct Democracy subject to the emotion based whimsy’s of patisan whores like this author.
This rigged jury is EXACTLY why the Presidential Pardon powers were put into the US Constitution. The Founders realized that Justice can be perverted by a Jury or a Judge. Thus they gave the President the power to over rule the verdict of a court. A completely appropriate use of the Presidential powers.
The Founders would of applauded this President for his wise use of the power. Unlike the former President who dished out pardons to big dollar campaign contributors, sexual partners and their hangers ons, this President, after several months of careful consideration of the facts, used it to thwart a transparently partisan political persecution.
A minor quibble because I'm seeing more and more of this misuse. Other than that, you're dead right.