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DOJ Pokes Another Stick in Trump's Eye - It Will Retry a Man Donald Trump Granted Clemency To
Redstate.com ^ | August 13, 2022 | Jim Thompson

Posted on 08/15/2022 11:21:28 AM PDT by Twotone

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To: Twotone

Team biden has made borders,speding and inflation/recession their top priority.
And they are exceeding very well.


21 posted on 08/15/2022 11:48:58 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! šŸ˜)
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To: Twotone

Isn’t there a whoring crackhead they can go after for money laundering?


22 posted on 08/15/2022 11:49:47 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

You remember that Commie b!tch that blew up a bomb in the Capitol in 1984? Klinton commuted her 50 year sentence and she went on to found BLM, a Marxist domestic terrorist organization. Time for the next Republican Attorney General to retry her case. And dozens more, I’m sure. Payback is Hell, ain’t it?


23 posted on 08/15/2022 12:03:44 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: Twotone

I agree with Turley that this was a horrible pardon/clemency by Trump, but DOJ is going after him just to poke Trump in the eye. It’s also a chance for the left to highlight Trump’s clemency to an undeserving scumbag. Garland might also go into Esformes path to clemency, donations, influence, etc. They are attacking Trump from as many directions as possible, and have unlimited resources.


24 posted on 08/15/2022 12:14:33 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: Lazamataz

“Merrick Garland needs to be in chains in a Supermax prison.”

Seems you forgot a word.

Merrick Garland needs to be HANGING in chains in a Supermax prison.


25 posted on 08/15/2022 12:15:38 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: Twotone
Just to be clear, this is kind of slimy, but it isn't illegal, and they're not undoing Trump's action.

Trump commuted the sentence of this guy, but there were other counts on which the jury deadlocked on which he was not convicted, and those can be retried. Because Trump only commuted the convictions, but didn't pardon the guy, it is perfectly legal to retry him on the counts for which Trump did not commute his sentence.

26 posted on 08/15/2022 12:15:50 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

It’s certainly slimy. Once again I ask WHY? Why go after THIS guy again when they have the money & he’s been in prison. Is it JUST because Trump pardoned him? Or is he some secret billionaire that funds conservatives? I’d love to know.


27 posted on 08/15/2022 12:17:52 PM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: OHPatriot; SkyDancer

He is being retried on 5 or 6 counts that the original jury hung on and they weren’t included in the clemency.

So it’s not double jeopardy or violating the clemency order. It’s just petty. The jury could hang up again because they are obviously the weakest part of the original trial.


28 posted on 08/15/2022 12:53:09 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Twotone

I dunno either. But if the guy really is a slimeball, I don’t much care one way or the other.


29 posted on 08/15/2022 1:02:29 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Twotone

Could I care any less about Kushner’s father?

NO.


30 posted on 08/15/2022 1:07:38 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Twotone
Unsatisfied with Esformes serving ā€œtime servedā€ and paying fines and forfeiting 38 million dollars, the DOJ plans to retry Esformes on the 6 counts he wasnā€™t convicted on.

Unless the jury was deadlocked on "the 6 counts he wasn't convicted on," he can't be tried again for those counts. That would be double jeopardy.

The DoJ either has to have a mistrial on those 6 counts, or they need to find new counts to try. If he was found not guilty (not "not convicted"), then those charges have been disposed of forever.

And to think that Garland was almost a Supreme Court Justice?

-PJ

31 posted on 08/15/2022 1:12:35 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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DOJ Pokes Another Stick in Trump's Eye - It Will Retry a Man Donald Trump Granted Clemency To

Hopefully his name is Charles Kushner.

32 posted on 08/15/2022 1:12:38 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When policemen break the law, then there isn't any law - just a fight for survival)
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To: Twotone
These stinking communist bastards are on a semingly unending roll...

ā€In your faceā€ is our communist masters' favorite tool to rattle the chains of tyranny that they have wrapped around our necks...

No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile Aamerican sheeple will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...

33 posted on 08/15/2022 2:12:57 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: Twotone

They are erasing everything President Trump did during his presidency. I honestly believe Pelosi is behind most of this, she was dead serious when she ripped up his State of the Union, when the Republicans allowed it to stand, it was a green light.


34 posted on 08/15/2022 2:17:47 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Twotone

It’s not just vindictive, although that’s a big part. It’s scorched earth.

Unfortunately, I have zero confidence Rs will do the same. The Queensbury Rules Losers will beat their chests, but not defund.

Defund. The entire FBI. That’s what I would do if I was in Congress.


35 posted on 08/15/2022 4:42:27 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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Would that be another unprecedented step in history?


36 posted on 08/15/2022 6:54:43 PM PDT by Conservat1
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To: adorno
The Biden administrationā€™s single policy is:

Whatever Trump did, undo it, or redo it differently, or do the opposite, and blame Trump for everything that goes wrong with their new policies.

0baįµa's spite and vindictiveness lives on.

37 posted on 08/17/2022 2:24:43 PM PDT by Tellurian (Your phone is your cattle tag. 2/4/2004: DARPA Lifelog terminated, Facebook initiated. )
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