Trump To Pardon Dinesh D'Souza
Source: TPM
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will pardon Dinesh DSouza, a right-wing commentator, author and filmmaker was was convicted in 2014 of using a straw donor to make an illegal campaign contribution.
Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh DSouza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2018
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Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-pardon-dinesh-dsouza
Initech
(100,034 posts)God damn him!!!
Botany
(70,447 posts)Today, I will be giving a full pardon to Dinesh D'Souza because he
was treated unfairly by the government.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,954 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)In a normal world with a real President that would be the case. These days - not so much.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,954 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,265 posts)This is only good news for D'Souza. And Trump shows he doesn't care about election fraud as long as it's done by someone sucking up to him.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,954 posts)unblock
(52,116 posts)A lot of people are thrown by the dicta in the Burdick decision. It was a non-essential statement made in a specific case of the government trying to force a pardon on an unwilling recipient in order to compel testimony (by eliminating 5th amendment protections).
It clearly doesn't apply where the pardon is granted on the grounds that the law was wrong or the jury was wrong. If someone is wrongly imprisoned and later exonerated with dna evidence, why on earth should they have to admit guilt in order to get out of prison?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)squirrel . . . . .
demmiblue
(36,822 posts)mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)every monster in history and pardon them..
Archae
(46,301 posts)It's not?
Let's see now, D'Souza is a liar, philanderer, demagogue, no wonder Trump likes him.
Botany
(70,447 posts)still_one
(92,061 posts)Gothmog
(144,908 posts)Gothmog
(144,908 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,436 posts)by John Wagner May 31 at 9:38 AM
President Trump announced Thursday that he would offer a full pardon to conservative author and documentary filmmaker Dinesh DSouza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to violating federal campaign finance laws.
DSouza was indicted on charges that he illegally used straw donors to contribute to a Republican Senate candidate in New York in 2012. He was sentenced to five years of probation, including eight months living under supervision in a community confinement center in San Diego, and a $30,000 fine.
Prosecutors said he had other individuals donate money to Republican Wendy Long, a Republican challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in 2012, under the agreement that he would reimburse them for the donations.
Last year, DSouza claimed he was targeted by the Obama administration for political reasons. Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh DSouza today, Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday. He was treated very unfairly by our government!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-offers-pardon-to-conservative-pundit-dinesh-dsouza-for-campaign-finance-violations/2018/05/31/b4939a08-64d5-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html
Alethia Merritt
(147 posts)seltzerwater
(53 posts)That is all
benld74
(9,901 posts)knowingly with malice and forethought committed a crime.
He was tried in a US court of law.
HE WAS CONVICTED
Where is the unfair part?
demmiblue
(36,822 posts)Worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs, he mocked the kids whod watched 17 people get murdered inside Stoneman Douglas High School just a few days priorall because he disagreed with their political beliefs.
Adults 1, kids 0, he added.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dinesh-dsouza-national-review-parkland-shooting-survivors-racist-bigot?via=twitter_page
There's more.
weissmam
(905 posts)so go right ahead , he already severed his term , all this does is confirm that he is a crook
muriel_volestrangler
(101,265 posts)Depending on the state, this might allow him to vote again.
moreland01
(736 posts)Now he can make him head of the Federal Elections Commission! :-
badhair77
(4,208 posts)my head exploding or my heart breaking for our country. A very depressing day.
MariaCSR
(642 posts)that he would abuse pardon power. He's just getting started, too...
durablend
(7,455 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)d'Souza IS a RW asshole. Aparthate(apartheid) move, while thousands of AA, male and female, in prison only because they have black skin will not be pardoned by this potus asshole.
demmiblue
(36,822 posts)demmiblue
(36,822 posts)ButSeeYa
(273 posts)or else he would have received a pardon from Trump as well.