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TomCADem

(17,382 posts)
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 10:18 PM Mar 2018

A felon pleaded his case on Fox & Friends. Days later, Trump pardoned him.

Source: MSN/Washington Post

Some 1.6 million people tune in to “Fox & Friends” every morning, but when Kristian Saucier told the network why he believed he should be pardoned for his national-security-related felony conviction, he clearly had one very specific, very powerful fan of the show in mind: the viewer-in-chief.

“Obviously, there’s two different sets of laws in this country, for the politically elite and for those lower-level individuals, Americans like myself,” he said on the network Sunday. “And I think that’s very upsetting on a basic level for most people. It should be.

“I accepted responsibility. I didn’t go to trial. I pleaded guilty. I said, ‘Look, I made a mistake when I was a young kid, and my family still continues … to be punished for that mistake.’ Whereas Hillary Clinton not only was not punished, but was allowed to run for the highest office in the country, and that should be very upsetting to the American people.”

Less than a week after making that plea, Saucier had his pardon from a man who has uttered very similar words and happens to be the leader of the free world: President Trump.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-felon-pleaded-his-case-on-%E2%80%98fox-and-friends%E2%80%99-days-later-trump-pardoned-him/ar-BBK5pRQ



Trump is not setting policy. Kevin Doocy is.
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A felon pleaded his case on Fox & Friends. Days later, Trump pardoned him. (Original Post) TomCADem Mar 2018 OP
Totally okay with the pardon Jake Stern Mar 2018 #1

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)
1. Totally okay with the pardon
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 12:29 AM
Mar 2018

While the whole "Hillary did it too" angle is utter bullshit, I feel the same about this case as I do about people being busted with an ounce of weed: This guy did something stupid but not malicious and it shouldn't haunt him for the rest of his life.

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