Disgraced former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham’s messy “bribe menu” was, apparently, just tacky enough to garner President Trump’s sympathy.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1355521
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1355521
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The Duke of Dukes in our hearts. He got laid, he got paid, he got a boat. And now he’s got a pardon.
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The King of Graft received a last-minute pardon from the King of Grift.
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I think the Duke just got knighted: the Garter of the Grift.
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What, no love for Bernie Madoff? I also cherish the memories of all the crap Bill Clinton took for pardoning Marc Rich; the double-standard lives on. The Bannon pardon is probably one that will stick in my craw for a long time.
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The stench of rottenness from Donald Trump will take a long time to go away.
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Many other pardons enraged me, but this one is almost beautiful in its own way. Deplorable, but many people are describing it as a perfect coda.
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I sure hope this does not mean the awards have to be renamed. Duke has a permanent place in the grafters hall of fame.
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“Take THAT, TPM!!11!” - Donald Joke Trump.
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Hopefully Bannon’s liver blows out catastrophicly
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I will shed no tears if fortunate enough to read his obituary; the same goes double for the man who pardoned him.
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That’s nice. Meanwhile President Biden has multiple crises to respond to starting with COVID-19 and housing and pandemic economy rescue and Muslim ban reversal, & a crapload of other actual good stuff. His reversal of the previous resident’s EO’s is not for revenge but to return America to normal prosperity.
I will thankfully forgive TPM if they never mention the Damn Fool again.
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Answer: In Giulianis.
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The thread that runs through it all: corruption is good! They are kindred spirits.
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Trump is/was a scofflaw and ‘thought’ it was A-OK to fk the country ONE MORE TIME on his way out the door. He is reprehensible…
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Not so much that corruption is good, per se. But it is certainly a given, and nothing to be looked down upon. Remember, Trump wanted to get rid of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act because bribing foreign officials was just the cost of doing business.
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Au contraire, I want to hear about every indictment, trial, and conviction of every member of the Trump Klan.
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Just to engage in some Slate Contrarianism, it’s interesting that the worst pardons predicted weren’t granted. Bannon appears to be the worst of them and one obviously done because he plans to be doing business with or through him very soon. It’s very obvious that if nothing else got through to him, the fact that people who are pardoned may not be able to take the Fifth when testifying against him or his spawn did.
But as to Duke, the nature and form of his corruption, the brazenness, directness and lack of sophistication, is almost quaint and sweetly naïve by comparison to the massive, stinking, fetid pile of corruption of the Trump crime family we’ll be digging up for years. His pardon, unlike the others, is almost justifiable in the sense that he did all of his time and his military record, cooperation and good behavior in prison represented the kind of redemption and worthiness checklist traditionally associated with a symbolic pardon, however hilariously brazen his corruption was.
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A truly fitting end. A gift to us all, a pardon we can mock for years to come.
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