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Trump commutes sentence of ex-Illinois Gov. Blagojevich, pardons ex-NY police commissioner Kerik, ex-49ers owner DeBartolo
cnbc ^ | 02/18/2020

Posted on 02/18/2020 11:12:22 AM PST by BenLurkin

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If it corrects anything Mueller did, I’m all for it. Too bad Martha Stewart got on Trump’s bad side, I’d love to see her pardoned as well. That was a Comey case.


21 posted on 02/18/2020 11:44:05 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: BenLurkin

President Trump should pardon every person that mueller ever convicted.


22 posted on 02/18/2020 11:46:09 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: proust

Agree Stewart should be pardoned.


23 posted on 02/18/2020 11:46:29 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: Sirius Lee

One a day ..for however long it takes..:)


24 posted on 02/18/2020 11:47:14 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: 100American
Pardons are given as a Presidential role in the Constitution to be used at his discretion

I understand the President's pardon powers. However, I disagree with Trump's decision on this. When elected representatives sell nominations, the sentence should be VERY long. The same for felony tax evasion.

25 posted on 02/18/2020 11:50:15 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

Kerik served his sentence...already.


26 posted on 02/18/2020 11:52:08 AM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Pollster1

The word in the article is Attempted..

None the less I agree that if that is an acceptable practice in their minds then it must be stomped out, no matter which party they claim


27 posted on 02/18/2020 12:02:11 PM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: proust

Comey was the one who did in Martha Stewart? She was very unfairly convicted, and although she’s a Dem (Polish-American working class background), what they hated about her was that she told just ordinary working people that they could make their lives beautiful and their dinner parties could be as good as anybody’s.

The Dems hate equality, because it messes up their whole pitch. They love misery and resentment.


28 posted on 02/18/2020 12:05:09 PM PST by livius
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Well, at least he learned a trade. He knows how to make license plates.


29 posted on 02/18/2020 12:12:07 PM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: Pollster1

He served 8 years in prison and I personally think that’s appropriate.

Compare that to what others serve for violent crimes and it appears relatively steep actually.


30 posted on 02/18/2020 12:17:23 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Don Corleone
Well, at least he learned a trade. He knows how to make license plates.

Actually around 50% of the recent Illinois Governors have apprenticed in the state’s license plate manufacturing program.

31 posted on 02/18/2020 12:25:48 PM PST by Freedumb
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To: Pollster1
In non violent crime trials, Prosecutors and Judges as a group are imo bigger violators of the constitution than those that they try and incarcerate.

Things need to be scaled down, ie , a 9 year sentence down to 9 month sentence.

32 posted on 02/18/2020 12:32:51 PM PST by duckln
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To: BenLurkin

Blago didn’t do anything other governors haven’t done.


33 posted on 02/18/2020 12:41:44 PM PST by WASCWatch
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To: BenLurkin

Dees guys, ya know, dey owe sumbody a favor or two now...


34 posted on 02/18/2020 12:46:52 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (All evil and bad things originate in China)
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This is making my blood boil. De Bartolo never served any time. Years ago he was sentenced to a fine and two year's probation involving his football team and some deal he made or didn't make with the Louisiana Governor. Why clemency now?

DeBartolo continues to damage State of Florida middle class homeowners with his company's corruptive relationship with the Sheriff of Hillsborough County. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister is DeBartolo's son-in-law!

Chronister has refused to allow his deputies to enforce speeding, reckless driving, littering, illegal dumping, illegal employment, code enforcement, and property crime laws against criminal illegal aliens violating those laws while they reside in Hillsborough County.

These illegals are employed under the table by the hundreds of sub-contractors doing business in the construction industry in West Central Florida. There is no e-Verify here.

For those who may not know, DeBartolo is a mall constructor with a net worth approaching that of PDJT's.

We can't even get a traffic light or a crosswalk installed on our community street, to protect pedestrian homeowners from rampant speeding cars and trucks trying to shave a few seconds off their commute time.

The sheer number of animals and birds killed by speeding drivers on our street, which runs through a zoned conservation area, is a disgrace.

This is the tyranny of a society with values unshared.

35 posted on 02/18/2020 12:56:37 PM PST by 4Runner
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To: BenLurkin
Let's look at this from a political perspective.

The pardoned Governor probably has some dirt on Obama.

After making NASCAR fans happy this weekend, doing well by a famous and beloved NFL owner and a former police chief of NYC, should boost Trumps rating with lots of folks.

I wonder if the former NYC police chief might even have some dirt on Hillary or Bloomberg?

This could be a masterful stroke of “the art of the deal.”

36 posted on 02/18/2020 12:58:05 PM PST by Robert357
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To: BenLurkin

As someone who lives next to ILL,

WTF? What the ACTUAL F#$K?

Is this a deal with the Obama faction to take someone out?

Because Blago sold Obama his senate seat, and ultimately his path to the white house.

So quite frankly this had better be a life and death deal with Trump, because it looks like Trump just cut a corrupt politician loose.


37 posted on 02/18/2020 2:47:43 PM PST by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian.)
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His ratings dropped with me.

Makes me wonder what will happen if Trump gets a second term.


38 posted on 02/18/2020 2:50:37 PM PST by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian.)
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“it looks like Trump just cut a corrupt politician loose”

That’s what we thought, and couldn’t figure out why PDJT did it. Blago was bad.

(I wonder if Trump considered pardoning everyone that McCabe had a hand in imprisoning. It could send an interesting message. What’s good for the goose...)


39 posted on 02/18/2020 2:51:30 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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“Kerik served his sentence...already.”

Right. He’s been on FNC a lot lately — especially on Judge Jeanine, I think.


40 posted on 02/18/2020 2:54:32 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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