Persona: 1. refers to the public image or role that someone presents to the world, often distinct from their true self; 2. a role or mask that someone adopts in public, 3. the personality and image which may or may not align with their true character; 4. a politician’s public image. – Merriam Webster Dictionary
Those not suffering from Terminal Trump Euphoria may want to take the time to read the list of convicted criminals Trump pardoned before leaving the White House his first term – as an indicator of who he will pardon this term.
You will find the UniMedia half posing as “conservative” conveniently turns a blind eye to the very real moral equivalency between Trump’s pardons and those of Joe Biden’s – including drug traffickers, unregistered foreign agents doing business with terrorists and those facing prosecution but whose cases have not been adjudicated. Remember the outrage by the “conservative” media over Joe pardoning his whole cabal before even being charged? Trump did the same thing.
Memo to Musk and Homan: Trump’s promise to close the border seems a bit schizophrenic when he pardons a businessman (Rubashkin) who engaged in slavery of over 400 illegal men, women and children at the largest kosher meat packing plant in the United States and defrauded the American taxpayers out of 26 million dollars. So while you are earnestly reducing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Trump is pardoning the criminals committing it. While you are risking your life and those of your officers’ capturing illegal aliens, Trump is pardoning the largest violators facilitating the demand for the illegals.
Trump’s pardons may not be as egregious in quantity but he equals Biden in robbing the American citizen, jurors, and prosecutors of justice and fairness.
Trump’s pardons also prove he can be bought just like every preceding president granting pardons and commutations to large campaign contributors, financiers and health care executives who defrauded the American taxpayer out of hundreds of millions of dollars – or at the request of currently serving, as-yet-unconvicted members of Congress. i.e. a cocaine trafficker at the request of Kim Kardashian; multiple health care scam artists defrauding the tax payers and senior citizens in rest homes; a cop killer (Davidsen); a drug trafficker at the request of Snoop Dog; credit card fraud requested by Jewel and Ivanka Trump; Pelletier a cross-border drug trafficker and Eli Weinstein.
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, who as an assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuted Weinstein, called Trump’s grant of clemency “one huckster commuting the sentence of another.” Weinstein hired Nick Muzin, a lobbyist and former aide to Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Tim Scott to lobby Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows for clemency. Weinstein’s commutation had been supported by New Jersey Democrat-turned-Republican congressman Jeff Van Drew. After Trump’s commutation, on July 19, 2023, with four others who had helped him hide his assets to avoid paying restitution, Weinstein was rearrested for conducting an estimated $35 million Ponzi scheme – again bilking investors out of their life’s earnings.
Grewal “there are two standards of accountability: One for the wealthy and well-connected and one for everyone else.”
“The Republican leader in the Illinois State Senate, Don McConchie, criticized Trump’s pardon of an indicted defendant who had not yet been convicted saying “Pardons should be done on the merits of the case, not based on the relationship with the President [Trump]. This sort of practice undermines the public’s faith in our system. We’re supposed to be a nation of laws, not one based on people [escaping justice] just because of who they know.”
“The Tampa Bay Times editorial board criticized Trump’s commutation of Clark’s sentence, describing it as an ‘outrageous injustice reeking of favoritism and privilege and confirms how easily a president can abuse clemency power.”
