Trump / Musk (other than DOGE) Omnibus Thread
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PARDONS AND COMMUTATION OF SENTENCES FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATING TO THE EVENTS AT OR NEAR THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6, 2021
Granting Pardons And Commutation Of Sentences For Certain Offenses Relating To The Events At Or Near The United States Capitol On January 6, 2021
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the
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Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht
Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht - BBC News
Trump said he had called Ulbricht's mother to let her know he had granted her son a full pardon.
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“… Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports.
Ulbricht was found guilty of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking.
During his trial, prosecutors said Ulbricht's website, hosted on the hidden "dark web", sold more than $200m (£131m) worth of drugs anonymously.
Prosecutors said he also solicited six murders-for-hire, including one against a former Silk Road employee, though they said no evidence existed that any killings were actually carried out. …”
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Two MPD Officers Sentenced for 2020 Murder of Karon Hylton-Brown and Subsequent Coverup
“Terence D. Sutton Jr., 40, a Fourth District police officer, was sentenced today to 66 months in prison and Andrew Zabavsky, 56, an MPD lieutenant, was sentenced to 48 months in prison, in connection with an unauthorized police pursuit that ended in a collision on Oct. 23, 2020, that caused the death of Karon Hylton-Brown, 20, in Northwest Washington D.C. The sentencing was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David Geist of the Washington Field Office.
Sutton was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by a unanimous federal jury on December 21, 2022, following a nine-week trial, of second-degree murder, conspiracy to obstruct, and obstruction of justice. The same jury found Zabavsky guilty of conspiracy to obstruct and obstruction of justice. In addition to the prison terms, U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman ordered each defendant to serve three years of supervised release. …”
Trump pardons two D.C. officers convicted in fatal chase and cover-up
David Shurtz, an attorney representing the estate of Karon Hylton-Brown, 20, said the president’s decision was “outrageous” and “ill-advised.”
Trump pardons two D.C. officers convicted in fatal chase and cover-up
David Shurtz, an attorney representing the estate of Karon Hylton-Brown, 20, said the president’s decision was “outrageous” and “ill-advised.”
“… ‘They were arrested, put in jail for five years because they went after an illegal,’ Trump said Tuesday.
‘And I guess something happened where something went wrong, and they arrested the two officers and put them in jail for going after a criminal.’ …”
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Trump Pardons Anti-Abortion Activists Who Blockaded Clinic
The move came ahead of the March for Life, the annual anti-abortion rally in Washington where Vice President JD Vance is expected to address attendees.
Trump Pardons Anti-Abortion Activists Who Blockaded Clinic
The move came ahead of the March for Life, the annual anti-abortion rally in Washington where Vice President JD Vance is expected to address attendees.
“… The defendants in that case were charged with two federal offenses: conspiring against civil rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, for the parts they played in blocking the entrance to that clinic. That law makes it a crime to threaten, obstruct or injure a person seeking access to a reproductive health clinic or to damage clinic property.
One of the anti-abortion activists, Lauren Handy, was sentenced to nearly five years in prison last year for her role in leading the blockade. Her case drew widespread attention when the police said that they had found five fetuses in her home shortly after she was charged in the case. Other defendants received sentences of less than three years in prison. One defendant, Jay Smith, 34, of Freeport, New York, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 months in prison.
The defendants, their representatives and allies, including Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, have argued that they were exercising their First Amendment right to protest. Mr. Hawley celebrated Mr. Trump’s move Thursday on social media, and he has said that he had urged the president to pardon them swiftly.
The FACE Act, the 1994 law that protects reproductive health clinics, was rarely used during Mr. Trump’s first term. But in response to the State of Texas’ passing a restrictive abortion bill in 2021, Merrick B. Garland, the attorney general in the Biden administration, signaled that the Justice Department saw enforcement of the FACE Act as a priority as it sought to protect the constitutional right to abortion more broadly. …”
Shenanigans
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I am shocked at all of this.
mynameisbond
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Really or sarcasm?
ChapelHillSooner
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People have also claimed that Musk uncovered 6.5 million people aged 112 or older who are receiving social security.
I don’t know if this came from Musk or some other right wing media.
The truth is that this is from a 2015 study that showed that there are 6.5 million open SSN’s of people that age, most likely caused by a transition from paper to digital records. Furthermore, the study found that only 13 of those were receiving benefits.
So to summarize:
1. Musk had nothing to do with it but either took credit for it or someone else gave him credit.
2. The potential fraud was for 13 individuals not 6.5 million.
And the rubes on Facebook are like, “Once we fix that we can all get a livable wage from social security.”
Good luck with that.
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LOL, well he says that everyone must follow the legal process while simultaneously shutting down any legal avenues. What does that amount to?
Also, when are we supposed to believe what he says and when are we supposed to read more into it or less into it? I lose track.
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Related:
www.nytimes.com
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The law, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, makes it illegal for companies that operate in the United States to pay foreign government officials to secure business deals. Though the law was enacted in 1977, federal authorities have more heavily enforced it since around 2005, cracking down on bribery, especially in countries where it is a common business practice.
Mr. Trump has objected to the law, which has led to charges and huge fines against some of the world’s largest companies. In November, U.S. prosecutors accused Gautam Adani, the Indian tycoon, of bribing Indian officials and charged him with fraud. His company has called those claims “baseless.”
Companies that have paid fines under the act include the engineering conglomerate Siemensand the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson. In 2020, Goldman Sachs agreed to pay more than $2.9 billion to resolve charges that employees at its Malaysian subsidiary had paid$1 billion in bribes to foreign officials.
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The law has been “abused in a manner that harms the interests of the United States,” Mr. Trump’s executive order on Monday said, adding that its enforcement was impeding foreign policy objectives.
The order bars federal authorities from starting any new investigations under the act or enforcing new actions for 180 days. The administration will also review existing investigations launched under the act, it said, to “restore proper bounds” on the law.
It also directs the attorney general to issue new guidance on how to enforce the act “that promotes American competitiveness and efficient use of federal law enforcement resources.” …”
Trump Pauses Enforcement of Law Banning Foreign Bribery
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it illegal for companies that operate in the United States to pay foreign government officials to secure or keep business deals.
Trump Pauses Enforcement of Law Banning Foreign Bribery
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it illegal for companies that operate in the United States to pay foreign government officials to secure or keep business deals.
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The law, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, makes it illegal for companies that operate in the United States to pay foreign government officials to secure business deals. Though the law was enacted in 1977, federal authorities have more heavily enforced it since around 2005, cracking down on bribery, especially in countries where it is a common business practice.
Mr. Trump has objected to the law, which has led to charges and huge fines against some of the world’s largest companies. In November, U.S. prosecutors accused Gautam Adani, the Indian tycoon, of bribing Indian officials and charged him with fraud. His company has called those claims “baseless.”
Companies that have paid fines under the act include the engineering conglomerate Siemensand the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson. In 2020, Goldman Sachs agreed to pay more than $2.9 billion to resolve charges that employees at its Malaysian subsidiary had paid$1 billion in bribes to foreign officials.
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The law has been “abused in a manner that harms the interests of the United States,” Mr. Trump’s executive order on Monday said, adding that its enforcement was impeding foreign policy objectives.
The order bars federal authorities from starting any new investigations under the act or enforcing new actions for 180 days. The administration will also review existing investigations launched under the act, it said, to “restore proper bounds” on the law.
It also directs the attorney general to issue new guidance on how to enforce the act “that promotes American competitiveness and efficient use of federal law enforcement resources.” …”
WaynetheDrain
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Aside from everything he and Stephen Miller have ever done or said, nothing.
HintonJamesHeel
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I’ll give the orange man this….the America public is going to eat up DOGE and love it. They will take an example here and there where a mistake was made (condoms, hotel overpayment, etc) and talk about them constantly. Those will be things that the administration will constantly put out there and the public, which has a very negative belief in Washington, will assume that what they have always believed is now confirmed. The system is rigged, waste is everywhere and folks get rich off of taxpayers
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