Originally published at: Other Presidents Have Let White‑Collar Criminals Dodge Financial Penalties—But Not Like Trump - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. President Donald Trump loves a good pardon. His generosity is so well known, in fact, that an industry of lobbyists, lawyers and other insiders has reportedly sprung up to facilitate clemency for wealthy criminals. Clemency, meaning mercy or…
What’s needed is for one of these pardoned criminals to show his payment to TRUMP for the pardon. Maybe there is one out there with a terminal illness that we can convince to turn on him.
Of the purported $600,000 to a lobbyist to get you a pardon, or the money saved on non-payment of restitution, how much goes back to the Grifter-in-Chief or his crime family as a beak-wetter?
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