Pardons, Commutations and Dropped Prosecutions Catch-All

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Calheel said:
When you can create a private army that cannot be prosecuted for crimes, that is probably worse. Who is going to try to prosecute you if they know they will be murdered the next day and the murderer will immediately be pardoned.

Likewise, who is going to files articles of impeachment or vote to convict?
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Fair. Sovereign immunity is still bad. Also, the pardon power wouldn't be as bad if corrupt pardons could be prosecuted.
 
tarheelbillie said:
Sounds like a prospective employee for The Trump Organization, Inc.
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I don't know if even Trump is dumb enough to hire him to work in his company. But instead of getting a hokey reality show, I could see him ending up as the next Director of NASA in this administration, or maybe the new director of The Kennedy Center, horrible as that sounds.
 


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/finance/currenc...3?st=XWytj6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company.

The president signed the pardon on Wednesday, the people said. Trump recently indicated to advisers that he was sympathetic to arguments of political persecution related to Zhao and others, one of the people said.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump had “exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.” She added: “The Biden Administration’s war on crypto is over.”

… Since Trump’s election, Binance has also been a key supporter of his family’s World Liberty Financial crypto venture, a business that has driven a huge leap in the president’s personal wealth.

The Justice Department imposed a record $4.3 billion fine and burdensome oversight on Binance, which it said had become a colossal money-laundering hub through which sanctioned groups and criminal organizations laundered billions of dollars in illicit funds.

The pardon may also prematurely end the Justice Department’s three-year Binance monitorship, set up to ensure the company complies with U.S. financial crime laws. However, it likely won’t end a separate monitorship established by the Treasury Department without the additional approval of Trump or the Treasury secretary.…”
 
nycfan said:


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/finance/currenc...3?st=XWytj6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company.

The president signed the pardon on Wednesday, the people said. Trump recently indicated to advisers that he was sympathetic to arguments of political persecution related to Zhao and others, one of the people said.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump had “exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.” She added: “The Biden Administration’s war on crypto is over.”

… Since Trump’s election, Binance has also been a key supporter of his family’s World Liberty Financial crypto venture, a business that has driven a huge leap in the president’s personal wealth.

The Justice Department imposed a record $4.3 billion fine and burdensome oversight on Binance, which it said had become a colossal money-laundering hub through which sanctioned groups and criminal organizations laundered billions of dollars in illicit funds.

The pardon may also prematurely end the Justice Department’s three-year Binance monitorship, set up to ensure the company complies with U.S. financial crime laws. However, it likely won’t end a separate monitorship established by the Treasury Department without the additional approval of Trump or the Treasury secretary.…”
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“…World Liberty has said that Zhao is friends with Zach Witkoff, a World Liberty co-founder whose father Steve Witkoff is Trump’s special envoy, but the venture hasn’t struck any business deal with Binance.

Zhao, who lives in Abu Dhabi, founded Binance in 2017 and grew it into the world’s largest crypto-trading platform, with some 300 million users globally. He served four months in prison last year after pleading guilty to an anti-money-laundering violation. Prosecutors said the illicit transactions Binance enabled under Zhao’s oversight caused “significant harm to U.S. national security.”

Zhao is the latest crypto executive to receive a pardon from Trump. In March, the president pardoned Arthur Hayes, a co-founder of the crypto exchange BitMEX who had pleaded guilty to violating anti-money-laundering laws….”
 
nycfan said:


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/finance/currenc...3?st=XWytj6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company.

The president signed the pardon on Wednesday, the people said. Trump recently indicated to advisers that he was sympathetic to arguments of political persecution related to Zhao and others, one of the people said.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump had “exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.” She added: “The Biden Administration’s war on crypto is over.”

… Since Trump’s election, Binance has also been a key supporter of his family’s World Liberty Financial crypto venture, a business that has driven a huge leap in the president’s personal wealth.

The Justice Department imposed a record $4.3 billion fine and burdensome oversight on Binance, which it said had become a colossal money-laundering hub through which sanctioned groups and criminal organizations laundered billions of dollars in illicit funds.

The pardon may also prematurely end the Justice Department’s three-year Binance monitorship, set up to ensure the company complies with U.S. financial crime laws. However, it likely won’t end a separate monitorship established by the Treasury Department without the additional approval of Trump or the Treasury secretary.…”
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nycfan said:
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“The crypto person? … he served four months in jail and a lot of people say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did, well you don’t know much about crypto, you know nothing about, you know nothing about nothing. You’re fake news.

But let me just tell you that he was somebody uh as I was told, I don’t know him, I don’t believe I’ve ever met him, but uh I’ve been told by uh a lot of support. He had a lot of support. And they said that what he did was not even a crime, it wasn’t a crime, that he was persecuted by the Biden administration and uh so I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people .”
 
nycfan said:
“The crypto person? … he served four months in jail and a lot of people say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did, well you don’t know much about crypto, you know nothing about, you know nothing about nothing. You’re fake news.

But let me just tell you that he was somebody uh as I was told, I don’t know him, I don’t believe I’ve ever met him, but uh I’ve been told by uh a lot of support. He had a lot of support. And they said that what he did was not even a crime, it wasn’t a crime, that he was persecuted by the Biden administration and uh so I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people .”
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This is an actual quote? Not a parody?
 
If you voted for/support this kind of breathtakingly obvious corruption, you deserve to go straight to hell. There is no rationalization for the kind of extortion/bribery we are witnessing every single week.
 
nycfan said:
“The crypto person? … he served four months in jail and a lot of people say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did, well you don’t know much about crypto, you know nothing about, you know nothing about nothing. You’re fake news.

But let me just tell you that he was somebody uh as I was told, I don’t know him, I don’t believe I’ve ever met him, but uh I’ve been told by uh a lot of support. He had a lot of support. And they said that what he did was not even a crime, it wasn’t a crime, that he was persecuted by the Biden administration and uh so I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people .”
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Anyone who attempted to read and comprehend those two incoherent paragraphs and still doesn’t think DC is in deep shit is hopeless . I remember well all presidents from Ike to present. None have been so embarrassingly unqualified as this one.
 
tarheelbillie said:
Anyone who attempted to read and comprehend those two incoherent paragraphs and still doesn’t think DC is in deep shit is hopeless . I remember well all presidents from Ike to present. None have been so embarrassingly unqualified as this one.
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Or, corrupt.

People from the Harding Administration or the Nixon Administration or the Robber Baron era would look at this Administration and think, “Damn! We were low-level pikers compared to these crooks.”
 
Zoo_View said:
Or, corrupt.

People from the Harding Administration or the Nixon Administration or the Robber Baron era would look at this Administration and think, “Damn! We were low-level pikers compared to these crooks.”
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Worse, Rump has convinced himself that he is President by divine providence. Really…he has said that he was “sent”.
 
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