Trump has decided to do it. He was tossing around the idea for a bit, because “patriots” and all that nonsense, but it has begun. One has to wonder how much money Trump is going to make off of this. We all know he will. Where is he going to hide it? He’s not going to want it to be visible for doing his taxes, not that he ever pays taxes anyhow. Suing the IRS. What a bunch of hooey. I appreciate Raw Story:
President Donald Trump said Friday he has signed pardons for six people convicted in connection with tampering with vehicle emissions controls, casting their cases as political persecution under his predecessor. “It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden Administration, and were in, or being sent to, prison, for ‘fixing their car,'” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding, “While I know this sounds ridiculous, it is nevertheless a fact, and part of the Weaponization and Stupidity that our Country had to endure during four long years of Sleepy Joe Biden. I AM SETTING THEM ALL FREE, RIGHT NOW!”
Hmmm. If these people were convicted of tampering with vehicle emissions, that’s something that’s going to require some serious facts to prove guilt, we would expect. Weaponization? Really? Political prosecution? Yea no. They tried to make an end run around the requirements and got caught. This can hardly be considered political. And it likely wasn’t even the federal government, since each state has different rules. Actually, it could have been federal, although I don’t know how, because Trump could pardon them.
Trump did not name the six. The move follows CBS News reporting that a list from his pardons team was expected to be limited to Clean Air Act violators, many of them mechanics prosecuted for disabling “defeat device” pollution controls on diesel engines. It builds on his clemency last year for a Wyoming mechanic imprisoned in a similar case. “We think this type of case is an example of government overreach,” said Stewart Cables, an attorney who works on such pardons.
Overreach pfff. Diesels aren’t as well known as regular vehicles, so that is likely a completely different thing to handle. If those folks are on the pardon list, we might not actually have 250 pardons after all. There are a couple of people requesting them who make me, probably us, uncomfortable to have out in America again, and we’re not talking about J6 here. That’s another list we missed. How many people pardoned by Trump are back in jail for something again? Moving right along, now.
The emissions pardons landed as Trump dangled as many as 250 acts of clemency around the nation’s 250th birthday, a push that has set off what reporters described as a frenzy among lawyers and lobbyists. Sean “Diddy” Combs, serving just over four years after a prostitution-related conviction, was among the famous names Trump had been privately weighing but was not on the recommended list, according to CBS. Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel and Malaysian financier Jho Low, accused of looting $4.5 billion from a state fund, have also sought relief.
The White House has brushed off corruption concerns, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying Trump “finds it detestable that anyone would even attempt to profit off pardons.” Democrats are probing whether clemency is being sold in a “pay-to-play” scheme they vow to escalate if they win the midterms.
It doesn’t matter what KKKaroline had to say. Oh hell yes, Trump would take money for a pardon! She isn’t telling the truth the majority of the time, so this is something else unbelievable. However, at least it appears it’s not going to be a full 250, so we may be grateful for that. Lighter-weight crimes. Better to be them than to try to pardon insurrectionists again.
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