One wonders if any of these prosecutors have a place where they can go and scream til they’re hoarse. Years and years of work wiped out. Some of them are wondering why they try to do anything that would bring a case to court. It’s wasted time and effort. It’s insulting. And to see someone who was successfully prosecuted walk free, well…. Thanks to Raw Story:
President Donald Trump has been destroying morale among federal prosecutors by undoing years of their work with the stroke of a pen. The 79-year-old president pardoned some of the most high-profile public corruption and white-collar defendants who were prosecuted in recent years, including some brought to justice during his first term in office, and more than a dozen experienced prosecutors told the Washington Post that Trump’s clemency acts have eroded faith in the Department of Justice that their work will lead to accountability.
We could guess right away that the start was the pardoning of the *rioters*, not patriots, and again, this is going to stick in my craw for a long, long time. All that work to figure out who they were, all that time putting the cases together, and all the work it took to win those cases, gone in 60 seconds. And this includes the ones who had been nailed for seditious conspiracy! It’s hard to imagine what it felt like when Trump pardoned/commuted all those people. The interesting part was about those who did not accept the pardon, and quite emphatically so!
Santos was among the controversial pardons handed out by Trump, who has claimed that he’s correcting corrupt prosecutions pursued under former President Joe Biden, but the attorneys told the Post that they investigated each case diligently and fairly. “To bring a case to trial is just an incredible effort and use of department resources,” said John Keller, who previously led the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section.
“There’s an intensity of experience and effort and emotion that doesn’t come at any other stage of the case. It’s the pinnacle of the practice.” “There’s a feeling that, if a jury or judge has reached a verdict after hearing all the evidence, it’s even more of a slap in the face to have clemency handed down,” added Keller, who’s seen Trump pardon several defendants he helped prosecute.
Yeah, George Santos walks away free of his case, and he *begged* for a pardon!!! All the money he stole is now lost. *No one* will get it back unless they spend a whole lot of time and money to sue him, and even then, it might not work. The person would likely spend more than they were owed unless it was a HUGE amount, so why bother? And why did the prosecutors bother if there was a chance of this happening? We’re going to lose a lot of good people thanks to Trump. It’s a surprise that there isn’t a noticeable number of prosecutors leaving day by day. And George Santos is a whiny little bitch. Grrrr.
In addition to Santos, the disgraced GOP lawmaker convicted of defrauding campaign donors, Trump has pardoned reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley and Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, as well as his sweeping pardons of more than 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters. “I couldn’t believe it was a complete and total pardon,” said one law enforcement official who worked on the Silk Road case.
Retired federal prosecutor V. Grady O’Malley, who described himself as a Trump supporter, told the Post that he was confounded by the pardon of New York businessman Joseph Schwartz, who pleaded guilty to failing to pay employment taxes for his chain of nursing homes and laundering money through various accounts. “I think the president was misled as to the reasons why [Schwartz] should be pardoned,” O’Malley said.
“I can’t see anyone accepting an application and alleging that he somehow deserves to be pardoned unconditionally and completely in this case. Something had to be said to the president. Whether he was paying attention to it or not, I don’t know.” Schwartz reportedly paid right-wing provocateurs Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl nearly $1 million to lobby Trump for a pardon, wiping away years of O’Malley’s work on one of the most complicated cases of his 47-year DOJ career.
Years. YEARS. And don’t you know the media would be screaming if former President Joe Biden did these things? The stupid, it burns! Now Joe had some problems of his own, yes, but nothing like Trump 1.0 or 2.0, especially 2. It gets to the point where you remind yourself not to get numb to these travesties. There’s so much going on that it’s hard to figure out where to look first. Right now, we could guess that midterms are important and protests are *definitely* important. There’s a start, and if we get to really roll on those two, it’s something! And in the meantime, I’ll keep writing.
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Based on the description of the time and effort to obtain a verdict, gathering information for a pardon must be similar. It’s obvious to me why Trump did it the blanket way: he’s a lazy bastard, not wanting to put in the effort. Of course, the other side of this is his total lack of understanding of how anything works. What a worthless POS.
“Look at me I’m pardoning aLl Of thEsE PaTrIoTs at OnCe In OnE FELL SWOOP!!!DJT”
*coughchoke* He’s never going to understand and as you mentioned, POS. I can’t go see him anywhere because my hand might connect with his face and then I would “disappear”. *ahem*