Tag: Presidential Pardons
Trump pardons cronies Stone and Manafort as DOJ proceeds with Lame-Duck execution spree
“Trump is pardoning his political allies while he’s executing people on death row at an unprecedented rate. His deeds are unconscionable.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer Thursday, December 24, 2020 Throwing the deeply unequal nature of…
Trump pardons Blackwater guards jailed for massacring Iraqi civilians
“While U.S. Army contractors convicted of massacring civilians in Iraq are pardoned, the man who exposed such crimes against humanity, Julian Assange, rots in Britain’s Guantanamo.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer Wednesday, December 23, 2020 President…
Medicare fraudster who exploited the elderly in $1.3 billion scheme embodies corruption of Trump clemency orders
“The corrupt, the criminal, murderers of children—that’s who Donald lets off the hook. We can never forget and never forgive the unspeakable cruelty.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer Wednesday, December 23, 2020 The very last name…
Free Snowden?!?
by Wade Rathke New Orleans President Trump wrong-footed me for a minute. Trump said he was going to take a good look at whether to pardon Edward J. Snowden, the supersized intelligence leaker and former…
