Giuliani and Trump sold pardons

[happyhoix]

Giuliani got sued earlier in the year, and in that lawsuit the plaintiff claimed Giuliani and Trump were selling pardons. 

www.businessinsider.com/trump-and-giuliani-conspired-to-sell-presidential-pardons-lawsuit-2023-5


This asshole, Jonathan Braun, is supposedly one of them. Pardoned on Trumps last day in office, a convicted drug dealer who was also involved in the predatory lending business. 

www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/jonathan-braun-the-drug-smuggler-trump-pardoned-once-flew-to-california-to-beat-an-associate-with-a-belt-prosecutors-alleged/ar-AA1kCPQp

maybe we’ll get another Trump lawsuit to add to the thread. 

[Tennesseer]

Hmmmm.

Jared Kushner's dad Charles, who Trump pardoned, gave $1 million to a Trump super PAC
August 3, 2023

Charles Kushner, the father of Donald Trump's son-in-law and the recipient of one of the former president's final pardons, donated $1 million to Trump's leading super PAC.

Kushner pleaded guilty in 2004 to a host of federal charges, including witness tampering and tax evasion. In one of the more salacious aspects of the case, Kushner hired a sex worker to lure his brother-in-law and then sent a video of their encounter to his sister. Chris Christie, who oversaw the case, called it "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes," that he'd ever prosecuted. Christie has long thought that putting Jared Kushner's father in prison led to him being blocked within Trump's orbit. Kushner has been out of prison since 2006.

Charles Kushner's donation was one of the largest to the pro-Trump "Make America Great Again Inc" super PAC has received from an individual contributor through the end of June. The donation was likely welcomed in Trump's orbit as the former president and his allies burned through cash — much of it devoted to the former president and his aides' legal fees.

Jared Kushner's dad Charles, who Trump pardoned, gave $1 million to a Trump super PAC

[laterbloomer]

OK, how does someone who pled guilty qualify for a pardon? Your system is weird.

[Opti]

Nov 27, 2023 23:37:54 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

OK, how does someone who pled guilty qualify for a pardon? Your system is weird.

Its tradition in various cultures to free a criminal or two as a show of faith or largesse to the people governed.

Do you identify as Christian or have any of the dogma from your upbringing?
The crowd was given several choices of who to release and instead of Christ I think Barabbas was chosen by the crowd. 

[Opti]

Thanks for posting. I thought this was an open secret, but I am glad proof of this has been confirmed.

[tallguy]

Nov 27, 2023 23:37:54 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

OK, how does someone who pled guilty qualify for a pardon? Your system is weird.

They don't qualify, but Trump ignored every common procedure to bail out his friends and supporters.  From Wikipedia:

For 125 years, the key adviser to the president on clemency has been the Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney (OPA) which normally reviews all requests for pardons.[1] Trump often bypassed the OPA, and, unlike previous presidents, made the majority of his grants to executive clemency to "well-connected offenders who had not filed petitions with the pardon office or did not meet its requirements."[1] Ultimately, of the 237 grants of clemency by Trump, only 25 came through the Office of the Pardon Attorney's process (which at the end of Trump's presidency had a backlog of 14,000 applications); the other clemency recipients came to Trump's attention through an ad hoc process at the Trump White House that benefited clemency applicants with money or connections to Trump allies, friends, and family members.[5] Most of Trump's pardons and commutations were granted to people with personal or political connections to him.[11]



Compared to other presidents, Trump granted clemency at low rates, with the bulk coming later in his term. Of Trump's grants of clemency, 84% were made in his last fiscal year in office,[12] with 144 out of his 237 grants of clemency being granted on his last night in office; the list was "assembled so hastily that it contained inaccurate information about some cases."[13] ' Legal experts raised concerns that Trump was "relying on his personal connections rather than the Justice Department's established review process for finding convicts deserving of clemency."[14] A late December 2020 analysis by Harvard Law School's Jack Goldsmith determined that "seven of the 94 Trump grants came on recommendation from the pardon attorney" and "at least 84 out of 94 Trump pardons had a personal or political connection to the president."[2] On February 19, 2020, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy requested information on the process used by Trump in deciding to grant clemency to 11 people the preceding day.[15][16] In response to the criticism of his bypassing of the OPA, Trump said that he is the "chief law enforcement officer of the country."[14]

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[happyhoix]

This guy Braun was part of a major investigation into predatory lending- they were leading on him to get him to roll on his co-conspirators - but that case fell apart the moment Braun got out of jail.

So not only did Trump let a major criminal out, he allowed a gang that preys on small businesses keep working.

MAGA!