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"Happy Hour" at Haywire This Saturday October 22, 2022 at 4:30PM. We will enjoy happy hour and have grab a bite to eat there and hang out for a bit! Great spot, good views and vibes :)
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Q is JFK Jr. and Trump is still President!!
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Impressively nuanced analysis bud!!
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^ CEO of bad takes
Big difference: Trump saves it for friends and doesn’t take counsel’s advice. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/12/890075577/roger-stone-clemency-latest-example-of-trump-rewarding-his-friends-scholars-say
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Did Obama benefit from the offences committed by any of the folks he commuted? Did any of those lie to save Obama's ass in the first place?
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K1 - These are all the records kept by the DOJ the media has absolutely nothing to do with it. Stop being lazy and go through the list:
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-commutations
These numbers are wrong. Not surprising since it’s Fox and they really want to push their narrative. Bush Commuted the sentences of 200 people. Trump commuted his sentence of 36 people. The reason that Trumps computations are controversial are because he directly goes against the military and he pardons those people who are politically affiliated with him or supporters. You can go through the list of people that Obama pardoned please let me know which one is directly tied to him politically.
Joe Arpaio, former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, was convicted of contempt of court for refusing to end the practice of “immigrant round ups,” and was awaiting sentencing. Pardoned on August 25, 2017.
Sholom Rubashkin, an Iowa meatpacking magnate sentenced to 27 years in prison for bank fraud in 2010. Commuted on December 20, 2017.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to the vice president of the United States, convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the CIA leak scandal. The sentence was already commuted to time served by President George W. Bush in July 2007, shortly after Libby's conviction. Pardoned on April 13, 2018.
Dinesh D'Souza, author and documentary filmmaker, convicted of campaign finance violations in 2014. Pardoned on May 31, 2018.
Michael Behenna, former United States Army First Lieutenant who was convicted in 2009 of murdering an unarmed prisoner during the Iraq War. Sentenced to 25 years in military prison, paroled in 2014. Pardoned on May 7, 2019.
Mathew L. Golsteyn, a US Army officer who served in the War in Afghanistan. He was accused of murder after the 2010 killing of an unarmed Afghan bomb maker who was a prisoner of war, and the U.S. Army had opened an investigation of him in 2016. Pardoned on November 15, 2019.
Clint Lorance, a former first lieutenant with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division in the U.S. Army and veteran of the War in Afghanistan. He was convicted on two counts of second-degree murder for ordering soldiers in his platoon to open fire at three men sitting on a motorcycle in southern Afghanistan in July 2012 while his platoon was on combat patrol. During the trial all platoon members testified that the men were sitting, unmoving on a motorcycle while the defendant claimed the motorcycle was approaching at a high rate of speed. He was sentenced to 19 years in prison in August 2013, and sent to Fort Leavenworth. Pardoned on November 15, 2019.
Rod Blagojevich, former Governor of Illinois, was charged with attempting to sell an appointment to the U.S. Senate to succeed President-elect Barack Obama. Was convicted of soliciting bribes, extortion, and wire fraud on June 27, 2011, and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Was commuted to time served on February 18, 2020.
Bernard Kerik, former New York City Police Commissioner, pleaded guilty to tax fraud and perjury in 2010 for concealing apartment renovations paid for by a contractor that the city had blacklisted because of suspected ties to organized crime. Was sentenced to four years in prison in 2010; was released in May 2013. Pardoned on February 18, 2020.
Roger Stone, a longtime political operative and friend of Donald Trump, was convicted in November 2019 on charges of witness tampering, obstructing an official proceeding, and five counts of making false statements in the course of inhibiting the investigation of the Trump campaign by Robert Mueller. He was sentenced to 40 months in prison, but before he reported to prison his sentence was commuted, on July 10, 2020.
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All crimes are the same. All actions are equivalent. There is no nuance or context to be found.
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Without going through that whole list weren’t the overwhelming majority of them non-violent drug offenses? Like....not at all in the same conversation as a guy who lied, obstructed justice, and tampered with witnesses to protect the president?
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Liberal heads will explode bc it’s on a fox header too
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Oh no! An incredibly shallow analysis meant to score rhetorical points and deflect justified criticism of Trump! My head can’t handle this!!!!
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List of Obama Pardons
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons
Thanks A1 for coming through with facts. These aren’t his lying BFFs that he pardoned OP. Do better.
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And no response from OP. What a surprise. I guess this is what they really mean by SiLeNt MaJoRiTy— no answers to anything.
Man, some people here really love missing the point.
If you think the argument is that the president commuting sentences is always bad, well, you need to listen better
Man, people love calling things a "hoax."
Except for Mueller, who did not call it a hoax
To put things in better perspective if you’re going to call out of Obama you might as well call out Truman.
“Over the full course of his tenure, Obama received 36,544 petitions for clemency – a figure that exceeds the total of the previous nine presidents combined.
Looking at the same data another way, Obama granted clemency to only 5% of those who requested it. That’s not especially unusual among recent presidents, who have tended to use their clemency power sparingly. But it’s near the bottom when considering all chief executives since 1900, the earliest year for which DOJ has published statistics. Truman, for example, granted clemency for 41% of the petitions he received; William Howard Taft and Wilson did so for 39% and 38%, respectively.”
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/20/obama-used-more-clemency-power/
Yes, because Obama knew all those people who lied to investigators and Congress in order to benefit him during both election victories. Smh.