Cartoon prez continues petty revenge rampage.
Celebrity POTUS: normalizing pardons … again. Unlike a Papal Bull this is slung with questionable logic and maximum irresponsibility.
Trying to do that autocrat thing with one of the executive powers that could give political enemies a Sad.
No, we’re still not distracted from the sentencing of George Papadopoulos.
GOP commenting on 45* making a mockery of the office… crickets.
At a campaign rally in Novi, Michigan Friday evening, Donald Trump asked President Barack Obama not to "pardon Clinton and her co-conspirators" if any charges were filed related to the email scandal.
"Mr. President," Trump said. "Will you pledge not to issue a pardon to Hillary Clinton and her co-conspirators for their many crimes against our country, and against society itself. No one is above the law."
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Though Trump said no one had asked him to pardon D'Souza, a source familiar with how things unfolded told CNN that Sen. Ted Cruz, among others, personally lobbied him to consider doing so.
A Justice Department spokesperson confirmed Thursday that Trump's pardon of D'Souza did not go through the department's Office of Pardon Attorney.
In the past, the Office of the Pardon Attorney has assisted the White House on clemency petitions -- though it is not constitutionally required.
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