Trump Pardon Watch Thread

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/us/politics/trump-pardon-braun.html

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A Staten Islander with a history of violent threats, Mr. Braun had told a rabbi who owed him money: “I am going to make you bleed.” Mr. Braun’s family had told confidants they were willing to spend millions of dollars to get him out of prison.

At the time, Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department and federal regulators, as well as New York state authorities, were still after him for his role in an entirely separate matter: his work as a predatory lender, making what judges later found were fraudulent and usurious loans to cash-strapped small businesses.

 

 

Nearly three years later, the consequences of Mr. Braun’s commutation are becoming clearer, raising new questions about how Mr. Trump intervened in criminal justice decisions and what he could do in a second term, when he would have the power to make good on his suggestions that he would free supporters convicted of storming the Capitol and possibly even to pardon himself if convicted of the federal charges he faces.

Just months after Mr. Trump freed him, Mr. Braun returned to working as a predatory lender, according to New York State’s attorney general. Two months ago, a New York state judge barred him from working in the industry. Weeks later, a federal judge, acting on a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission, imposed a nationwide ban on him.

A New York Times investigation, drawing on documents and interviews with current and former officials, and others familiar with Mr. Braun’s case, found there were even greater ramifications stemming from the commutation than previously known and revealed new details about Mr. Braun’s history and how the commutation came about.

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William P. Barr, a Trump attorney general who had left by the time of the Braun commutation, said when he took over the Justice Department he discovered that “there were pardons being given without any vetting by the department.”

 

Mr. Barr added that he told Trump aides they should at least send over names of those being considered so the department could thoroughly examine their records. While the White House Counsel’s Office tried to do so, the effort fell apart under the crush of pardon requests that poured in during the final weeks before Mr. Trump left office, according to people with direct knowledge of the process.

I mean, it's nothing we didn't already know or couldn't discern with some basic fucking empirical observation, but wow what a surprise that trump actively protected loan sharks and threw sand in the gears of prosecutions 

[High Plains Drifter 11162]

 

I don't think DOtaRd actively did anything. Its more like "Hey dadykins, this guy's father paid the Gimp and I money so you need to give him a pardon. Sign here."

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Look forward in 2025 when this thread updates with him pardoning himself. 

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6 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

I don't think DOtaRd actively did anything. Its more like "Hey dadykins, this guy's father paid the Gimp and I money so you need to give him a pardon. Sign here."

Or more like he knows that it costs him nothing but a few seconds to sign it, meanwhile Miller or another staffer is whispering in his ear "and if you sign this pardon, he has X amount of money and properties, and he'll owe you during your next campaign or when you need a favor in this place."