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by jbullock35
1975 days ago
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> Which of these is worse than pardoning your own drug trafficking, drunk driving brother? The pardon of Roger Clinton is bad, but a number of Trump's pardons are worse. The critical difference is that Trump was pardoning people who betrayed the public trust. For example, he pardoned Duke Cunningham [1], a former Congressman who very explicitly sold his votes in Congress. And he pardoned Kwame Kilpatrick [2], the former mayor of Detroit who was elected on a promise to clean up Detroit's city government, but instead installed more than two dozen of his friends and family members in city government (they weren't competent, but they got high salaries), and who was convicted of extortion and racketeering. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Cunningham
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kilpatrick |
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