President Trump broke news with the surprise announcement he is using his pardon power for eleven convicted individuals, including Rudy Giuliani’s convicted NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik, former “Apprentice” contestant Rod Blagojevich, and Michael Milken, a billionaire convicted of 98 counts of racketeering and fraud. The pardons come as Trump’s DOJ faces a firestorm over allegedly giving special treatment to Pres. Trump’s convicted aide. In this report, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber explains how these new “political and messaging pardons” clearly “favor the rich and famous,” and constitute “a new low for this total breakdown of justice in the pardon process.” Melber implores citizens to take note of Trump’s action, saying it is as “serious as a heart attack” and noting the new pardons demonstrate why people should actually take Trump “literally,” as he openly campaigned and now governs on deploying “the intimidation of the law, of investigation, of jail – into a political weapon against rivals.”
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'You're Pardoned!': Trump Frees 'Apprentice' Contestant From Prison In Legal Dumpster Fire | MSNBC
One crook pardoning other crooks leading up to pardoning himself.
He’s releasing all the loser while he can, come November he will lose that privilege! He might need somebody to get him out of jail!
Big dreams David
Keep dreaming. Awww
@Marlon Herrera complete stupidity marlon remain ignorant
You are exactly right. trump sees the writing on the wall and it says “Get out!!!” There are so many people that voted for trump last time that will not this time. LMAO.
Yeah, but stupidity is like cancer, it can grow uncontrollably even with the best treatment.
Trump has just issued a posthumous pardon for his dear departed longtime friend Jeffrey Epstein. Today Trump said that he is the chief law enforcement officer of the country. 😲😲😲
That’s like Bernie Madoff saying he’s the chief law enforcement officer of the country. When Trump says he’s concerned about corruption, he means that he’s deeply concerned about going to prison for his own corruption. Trump didn’t drain the swamp, he pardoned it.
Trump wants to create a world where nothing is wrong, and nothing is illegal anymore. It’s the type of world that he’s been dreaming of his entire life. A criminal’s paradise. The Trump name will forever be synonymous with corruption.
I would investigate Trumps friendship with Epstein and Epstein’s murder. Trump a Pervert?
Trump and Barr are probably the ones who arranged Epsteins death.To cover Trumps own past business. Epstein did comment he wanted to make his modeling agency just like Trumps.
David J you always have the best posts. Just subbed your channel.
Frank Shoniker ; I don’t believe Epstein is dead but I do believe trump is a pervert
We need to come together and over throw these clown crooks
I’m ready.
Trump is so gross.
Indeed. And these days I consider anyone still supporting him to be equally as gross and deeply unpatriotic.
Prosecutors don’t like criminals. These criminals were found guilty AFTER trial.
No excuse to pardon any of them, ESPECIALLY Stone.
Rocky Mountain
tRump as gone completely off his tree an it can only get worse.
God bless America and save her from the lunatics
NOVEMBER 2020
VOTE BLUE
let’s hope there is still something left worth voting for
How ’bout,”buying”,VOTES?!???! Votes,for pardons. Pardon one,a whole family and many friends vote,real happy and thankful,ignoring,any issues.
I don’t understand why our government doesn’t have Donald Trump gone disappeared wiped off the face of the Earth never heard or seen from again
……a long dirt nap.
Yes I get that frustrated over this clown as well.
Well that would actually be wrong, but very, very good for America.
TRUMP IS THE GOVERNMENT
😑 The corruption is infuriating with this illegitimate demented lunatic.
I would have expected nothing less. Trump is the Joker, Riddler, Penguin and Egghead all rolled into one! Of course he pardons all the wealthy people to show how powerful he can be. But we all know he is a wimp inside.
@Professor Phate TRUMP/PUTIN 2020!! Vote the Traitor Ticket AGAIN!!! WINNING!!!
Finally 😳
Now We “Can All See” 👀, Said the Kings Blinded (Men & Horses)
…. Hum’pity Dum’pity is on 🔥Sitting Hi💨Upon His WALL
@Professor Phate Donnie the victim and his victimized degenerate supporters will never eke out a 77000 vote win again..Believe Me!
Well, he actually is the head of the Mob in America. This is what happens when the head of the Mob gets elected President.
@Professor Phate At least you can use grammar and spell better than your Orange master . . .
He’s doing exactly what he said he would do….whatever the F*** he wants! And it’s being allowed. Incredibly sad what he has destroyed in a few short years.
TDS
I saw ALL OF THIS EXACTLY in 2015 when he was running. I have been telling people since then. No one listens. This is why my world crumbled in November 2016. Everyone else tried to console themselves. Maybe it won’t be so bad . . . VOTE!
This is completely a banana republic now
SOUND LIKE SOMEONE IS MOVING TO CANADA..BYE
Trump is concerned that his convicted partners in crime, Stone and Flynn, will turn on him if they have to do long prison sentences.
In December 2015, Flynn, who was briefly Trump’s national security adviser got paid $45,000 plus expenses for attending a gala dinner in Moscow and giving an interview. Details of the contract didn’t become available until after he resigned. According to the U.S. intelligence community, RT, formerly Russia Today, is a Putin regime propaganda machine that gets nearly $200 million in direct Kremlin financing annually.
In the IC’s January 6 assessment of how Russia interfered with the U.S. election, RT was described as having “contributed to the influence campaign by serving as a platform for Kremlin messaging to international audiences,” including U.S. viewers.
The assessment noted that during the campaign, RT “consistently cast Trump as the target of unfair coverage from traditional U.S. media outlets that it claimed were subservient to a corrupt political establishment.” At the same time, “RT’s coverage of Clinton throughout the presidential campaign was consistently negative and focused on her leaked e-mails.
The assessment also included a little-discussed annex that laid out RT’s history of “anti-U.S. messaging” going back to the 2012 election, stating more recent activities are just the latest example of tactics meant to undermine trust in U.S. democracy and undercut U.S. criticism of Russia.
In the video of the December 2015 dinner celebrating the 10th birthday of Putin’s propaganda network RT at a Moscow hotel, Putin and a host of Russian luminaries toasted the state-controlled news channel that U.S. intelligence calls a Kremlin mouthpiece. And next to Putin at the head table, in the seat of honor, was Michael Flynn, who was already advising Trump’s campaign when he was being paid $45,000 to speak at the gala.
“It is not a coincidence that Flynn was placed next to President Putin,” said Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador in Moscow “Flynn was considered a close Trump adviser. Why else would they want him there?”
Sergey Ivanov, Putin’s chief of staff at the time, sat directly across the table from Flynn. A former K.G.B. general who at one point ran intelligence operations in Africa, he has also served as Russian defense minister and deputy prime minister. Ivanov had been under U.S. and European sanctions for a year and a half by the date of the dinner. Next to Ivanov was Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, but more importantly his de facto national security adviser, say U.S. officials.
Flanking Putin on his right, two seats from Flynn, sat Alexey Gromov, Putin’s deputy chief of staff. U.S. intelligence considers Gromov to be Putin’s head propagandist. According to the January 6 Intelligence Community report on Russian interference in the U.S. election. He too was on U.S. and European sanctions the day of the dinner.
After Putin got up to make his speech, his place at Flynn’s side was taken by Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief. A personal friend of Putin, she worked in one of his presidential campaigns before being chosen by Gromov to head RT. U.S. intelligence assessment of RT paints Simonyan as the lead person, along with Gromov, engaging in information warfare against U.S. policies. She is described as closely tied to, controlled by the Kremlin. When Putin finished his speech that night, Flynn was among the first to leap to his feet and offer a standing ovation.
The IC also noted cooperation between the Kremlin, Russian intelligence services and RT’s editors. Quoting Simonyan, the annex noted that her boss, Putin’s Deputy Chief of Staff Aleksey Gromov, would share classified information and discuss coverage plans in meetings with RT managers.
Rick Gates testified under oath in Roger Stone’s trial that he was in the presidential limousine with Trump, and he’d heard Stone tell Trump about the WikiLeaks release of hacked DNC emails before the dump happened — a direct contradiction of what Trump told Mueller in his written testimony.
In his under oath testimony, Gates described how he’d seen Trump get a phone call from Stone in summer 2016, and after Trump hung up, told Gates “more information would be coming” regarding WikiLeaks..
Going back as far as April 2016, Gates said, Stone told him that information would be released by WikiLeaks that could be helpful to Trump’s campaign. He reiterated this the following month. All this was before WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stated publicly on June 12, 2016, that he had pending releases related to Clinton.
Gates testified that the top levels of the Trump campaign were very interested in what Stone knew about WikiLeaks. Gates said Manafort asked him to follow up with Stone to try to learn more about WikiLeaks’s plans. And Gates said that Manafort indicated he would update others on the campaign, “including the candidate” — Donald Trump.
Gates also testified that he witnessed a phone call between Trump and Stone in late July, shortly after the DNC email releases began, while Gates was in a car with Trump driving to LaGuardia Airport. Gates said that after the call ended, Trump told him that “more information would be coming.”
You seem to be well-informed about the subject. If you have not yet seen the documentary”Active Measures” I highly suggest watching it.
And can they charge Trump with treadon if he loses the election.?
Where is trumps party with all this? Probably planning some kind of crimes while trumps handing out get outta jail free cards.
they are in courts suppressing votes and fighting pre existing conditions
Trump is out of control, it’s going to get worse.
Ya think?
@Sean D Sarcasm isn’t going to help.
The sun will rise in the east and set in the west. The sky is blue. Water is wet. Gravity sucks.
he’s using our tax dollars to free these criminals this beyond swamp activity, he is freeing goblins ghouls and all kinds of witches
@Kevin Pham over 200 days spent golfing since his election….theres another line item for your list of horribles when it comes to taxes….🧐
So this is what the death knell of America looks like.
@Jethro Arcadia Not like this.. Trump and anyone supporting him are traitors.
@Steve -O Let’s hope there are enough of us. ALL independents and moderates need to know about this, and how wildly corrupt it is. There is no way to adequately describe to the American people how this denudes any semblance of democracy.
Colin Connelly you agree it’s tyranny then?
ONE pardon,yields many,family and friends VOTES!!!
Dishonorable Lawless President!!
TDS
Trump is completely out of control like a mad man! Can’t believe America is allowing him to do this! His completely insane!
No, you don’t understand. Trump promised to drain the swamp. Now he is doing it. Draining the swamp out of prison to sweep over us.
David McCullough Told you he’s insane!
Where is Susan Collins. Yes trump learned his lesson. He learned he can do whatever and the Senate won’t stop him.
And there you have it Suzie Que.
Somebody’s constituents are going to notice . . .
If we end up with a fully Democratic House and Senate and this usurper gets reelected, guess who’s getting impeached. Again.
Collins is hiding in Maine covering her outhouse seat.
Trump the dude is on tape trying to sale a senate seat. Trump is the most corrupt human to ever sniff the white house.