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by gadders 1978 days ago
Go here and search for "drug" or "amphetamines". Quite a few non-violent drug offenders with stupid sentences getting pardoned:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-pr...

EG:

Corvain Cooper – President Trump commuted the sentence of Mr. Corvain Cooper. Mr. Cooper is a 41 year-old father of two girls who has served more than 7 years of a life sentence for his non-violent participation in a conspiracy to distribute marijuana.

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I have, and I know. The existence of those does not indicate anything about the existence of the other type.
I've found the drug users. You highlight the mob cronies.
I was pointing out a flaw in your logic, not making a claim.

For the sake of argument I could've used "child-eating lizard people".

Oh I see. A strawman.
Not by any definition.

You said he had pardoned fewer people than previous presidents. I said that the number of pardons had no bearing (on whether or not it's abused), and illustrated that point with a hypothetical.

At no point have I made up an argument as yours to attack.