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That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion."
Trump’s second-term pardons are historic in their enormity—billions in fines erased, allies protected, donors rewarded, DOJ undermined, and election norms threatened. Corruption looks less like an exception and more like the rule, says Cato’s Dan Greenberg.
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Serious question @EricLDaugh, How do you live with yourself? You are a soulless propagandist. You mean nothing you say. How do you not wake up every morning and feel like an evil sack of government mouth-piece shit?
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Trump and Rubio just went around Congress to give Israel 12,000 1,000-pound bombs
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Here's why Trump's removal of Russian oil sanctions last night is the single greatest of all Trump's gifts to Putin. The record high of unsellable Russian oil sitting in tankers all across the world's oceans will now be turned into immediate cash for Putin's war machine. India
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Stephen Miller said: “We're going to war with Mexico down to the tip of South America,” "There is not a criminal justice solution to the cartel problem. These organizations can only be defeated with military power." When is Stephen going to prison for crimes against humanity?
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CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
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Trump’s second-term pardons are historic in their enormity—billions in fines erased, allies protected, donors rewarded, DOJ undermined, and election norms threatened. Corruption looks less like an exception and more like the rule, says Cato’s Dan Greenberg.
cato.org
At least the specter of corruption in previous presidential administrations (Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich or Biden’s pardon of his son) appeared to be an exception to the rule. Today, however, the...
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NEW: Pardon seekers are routinely being asked to pay $1m+ to lobbyists & lawyers claiming access to Trump, often with bonuses if clemency is granted. I investigated the Trump Pardon Industrial Complex, & detailed the backstory behind 1 interesting pardon
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One inmate paid lobbyists and lawyers with ties to the president’s team and walked free. Others are following his blueprint, but it is not always clear who can deliver.
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Leavitt on reports that Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran to help them target US assets: "Whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter"
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🚨 NBC: Trump administration officials confirmed to Congress in a closed-door briefing that the US was responsible for targeting the area where an Iranian girls’ school was struck. Scores of children killed. Not Iran. Not a misfire. Not collateral damage from someone else. Us.
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BREAKING: 🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Larry Ellison has blocked the hashtag ‘FreePalestine’ on TikTok. Know that CNN, CBS and the entire media world owned by the Ellisons is now Israeli state media. But don’t dare notice it, you antisemite. https://t.co/jxZFUkXH0I
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A reader, the father of a Marine awaiting call-up, just wrote to ask why Trump ordered US flags to fly at half-staff after Charlie Kirk's death but hasn't done so for the six service members killed in the opening of the US-Israel war against Iran.
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ICE violently detain U.S. citizen—drags him out of car, jump on his back, and beats him. "They're beating him with a stick!" witness yells. "They pepper sprayed him—then they beat him!" "Hey guys! He's a U.S. citizen!" "They had already beaten him. They had maced him. They had
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JUST IN: Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with members of the U.S. military who are currently stationed at an Air Force base in Israel. He says: “there is much work ahead with the U.S. military as I continue to expand Israel in the Middle East.“ They’re not even hiding it anymore.
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Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility: “I guess,” he says “Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”
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If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite
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A Jan. 6 defendant pardoned by President Trump for his role in the Capitol attack has been sentenced to life in prison for child molestation and related crimes.
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Andrew Paul Johnson, authorities said, tried to keep one of his victims mum by floating the promise of money he was expecting to receive from the Justice Department.
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