One of President Donald Trump’s pardons apparently came with a hefty price tag.
On Tuesday, the White House announced a slew of pardons and commutations for various white-collar criminals, including Paul Pogue, the founder of Pogue Construction, who pleaded guilty in 2010 for cheating the government out of over $473,000 in taxes and was sentenced to three years of probation.
Finest pardon money can buy
Suffice it to say the founders who gave the president pardon power never envisioned a president who would negate the justice system by selling “get out of jail free” cards to the highest bidder and to those who would commit crimes for him.
Selling pardons isn’t strictly illegal, of course, but if this were any other administration this move might actually have become a scandal. As it is, I fully expect Donald Trump will have knocked over a female reporter and urinated into her mouth on national TV at least once before summer. I also expect several Senate Republicans to publicly state that this was somehow justified (though Susan Collins will admit that she finds this behavior “worrisome”).
Yes, buying your way out of prison is the new thing.
Remember when Republicans cried bloody murder when the Clintons let donors stay in the Lincoln Bedroom…good times, good times.
Gambling on the premises? Rick I’m shocked, shocked.
I wonder what the percentage is for Trump’s commission on donations?
With a pardon do you get your voting rights back?
This is why he also pardoned Blagonovich, he didn’t want nobody acussing of double standards when selling political favors.
How’s Collins doing?
Just wondering, is the menu for large donations from convicted felons prix fixe, or is there a one from columns A and B arrangement?
You know, for a quarter a mil, do I just get daddy out of jail, or is there also dibs on a government project? Something like work on the border wall or what not.
Well of course they did. I love his pardoning tax cheats ( Kerik still owed 100k to the IRS that the rest of us will have to make up for).
As long as they kiss the ring.
Pardons are always fraught, but I can’t recall any as clearly suggestive as these are of his true supporters being told they can continue to lie, cheat and steal as long as they pay tribute to the Don. It’s like prosperity ministry that actually works for you. Forget being a king; it’s POTUS as God.
I wonder how much you’d have to pay Trump for him to agree to quit? He should start a gofundme campaign.
OT. How biblical.
Quid Pro Quo Domesticus.
A species of slime mold, formerly thought extinct, found growing in White House drainage system.
So god-damn obvious. He might as well be selling fake Rolexes out of his car trunk.
