Posted on 02/18/2020 10:36:51 AM PST by Brown Deer
If he hasn’t used it so far, he never will. He’s never going to help Republicans.
Meanwhile, no Democrat jerks get 6 months in jail do they?
Maybe no one here agrees with this but I do. He had the book thrown at him because he embarrassed precious Obama, more serious corruption has gone unpunished, let him go home to his family.
Meanwhile, Trump looks compassionate and people are reminded that democrats are corrupt scum.
No way. All the cushy gigs on corporate boards and with consulting firms that are waiting for him if he does his time and keeps his mouth shut would disappear if he switched parties.
There is a reason Chicago democrats never rat, and that is because they are well compensated if they have to go to prison.
I agree.
“when killers and sex offenders are out walking the streets”
Hey now, leave the Clintons out of this.
In an interview with Esquire in January 2010, Blagojevich said about President Obama, "Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where he lived. I saw it all growing up." He soon backpedaled from the term "blacker than", saying that he chose his words poorly, but he stood by his message that "the frustration is real, and the frustration is still, today, average, ordinary people aren't getting a fair shake."As governor Blagojevich had the power to appoint someone to the Senate seat vacated by Barack Hussein O. My recollection is that BHO had someone in mind for that seat who was not the guy Blagojevich selected; and then Chicago politics took over.
ML/NJ
Blago could have spilled the beans that the SEIU guy he was negotiating with was acting on behalf of Obama, but he didn’t. Everyone suspected it, but they couldn’t prove it from the tapes and Blago kept his mouth shut.
Also former Rep. Steve Stockman , R-TX, was jailed unjustly and given a 10-year sentence for campaign finance violations.
Yeah, Blago was just a moron. I mean, everyone in Illinois is corrupt, but only Blago was stupid enough to openly talk about pay for play on his phone, in his office, etc, while he knew he was under an active federal corruption investigation.
How Comey was involved...
From 2018:
‘Mueller, Comey, and Fitzgerald must be denied their swamp water. And Trump should make a big splash by sending Blagojevich back home.’
They would if I had anything to say about it
I don’t really know but Trump said it on a Fox report.
I agree.
Blag is pond scum & not worthy of this.
that may be "proper" in your opinion, but a President commuting and lowering a potential prison sentence does not mean that he believes it was too harsh. Commutations and pardons can happen for any reason, or no reason at all. It is fully at his discretion. How you personally choose to interpret the meaning and motive for it is up to you. That doesn't make it so.
Rush said earlier today that Trump was also pardoning Eddie deBartolo, owner of the 49ers.
I initially agreed with this. But after seeing you’re for it, I’m against it.
#ostracized
Who says he is done? Pardoning Kerik was certainly a good step in that direction. Kerik was getting attacked for not being in lock-step with the Dems as well.
However, it would be tougher in an election run-up to start pardoning the big names. Maybe they're on the list for December, no matter the election results.
So is Trump going to commute the sentences of everyone Pat Fitzpatrick convicted? And those convicted by any other U.S. attorney that Comey and Mueller knew?
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