From The Gazette (Iowa, USA), which in turn credits the AP:
“It’s not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals,” senior U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt of the Southern District of Iowa told the Associated Press during a brief phone interview Monday. In a bit of humor, he said: “But apparently to get a pardon, one has to be either a Republican, a convicted child murderer or a turkey.”
Pratt was referring to pardons Trump granted to his former campaign aides convicted during the special counsel’s Russia inquiry, former GOP congressmen who committed crimes, and security contractors convicted of killing innocent civilians in Iraq. Trump also pardons turkeys — this year two from Iowa — annually before Thanksgiving.
A blistering shot that may illuminate the corruption which is dooming the United States. The very end of the political spectrum that has pranced about, sporting its moral rectitude, is turning out to be far more immoral than the Democrats. The faux-issue of abortion is not, and cannot be, part of this equation, since a good 50% of Americans believe it should be an option available to pregnant women.
And screaming What About Marc Rich!? isn’t the same as the pardons being handed out to obviously undeserving criminals by Trump. And Clinton later expressed regret for the pardon.
