{"id":31724,"date":"2020-12-29T17:17:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T23:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31724"},"modified":"2020-12-29T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T23:17:48","slug":"quote-of-the-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/29\/quote-of-the-day-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/nation-and-world\/judge-robert-pratt-iowa-donald-trump-pardons-criminals-20201229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From<\/a> <em><strong>The Gazette<\/strong><\/em> (Iowa, USA), which in turn credits the <strong><em>AP<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals,\u201d 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: \u201cBut apparently to get a pardon, one has to be either a Republican, a convicted child murderer or a turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pratt was referring to pardons Trump granted to his former campaign aides convicted during the special counsel\u2019s Russia inquiry, former GOP congressmen who committed crimes, and security contractors convicted of killing innocent civilians in Iraq. Trump also pardons turkeys \u2014 this year two from Iowa \u2014 annually before Thanksgiving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 <em>faux<\/em>-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.<\/p>\n<p>And screaming <em><strong>What About <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marc_Rich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marc Rich<\/a>!?<\/strong><\/em> isn&#8217;t the same as the pardons being handed out to obviously undeserving criminals by Trump. And Clinton later expressed regret for the pardon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Gazette (Iowa, USA), which in turn credits the AP: \u201cIt\u2019s not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals,\u201d 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 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/29\/quote-of-the-day-10\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31726,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31724\/revisions\/31726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}