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Yesterday, Donald Trump decided to go on a
pardon and clemency spree, where for the most
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part, he decided he was going to either pardon
or commute the sentences or grant clemency
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to a bunch of rich white collar criminals.
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Those criminals included former Illinois governor
Rod Blagojevich, who was accused and convicted
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of essentially trying to sell Barack Obama's
former Senate seat.
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You had former police commissioner, Bernie
Kerik.
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You had financer, Michael Milken who became
the face of financial fraud during the 1980s.
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You had the former owner of the San Francisco
49ers.
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You had one of Jack Abramoff's buddies by
the name of Safavian in there too, just a
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bunch of people guilty of some kind of financial
crime or another.
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Now that's one of the things that a lot of
these people had in common, but another thing
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that they had in common was the fact that
recently many of them had either gone on TV
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or had one of their surrogates go on TV to
attack Donald Trump's enemies, or they've
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just straight up given a lot of money to Donald
Trump and his campaign.
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Let's start with Blagojevich.
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In the last couple of weeks, his wife Patti
has been going on a media blitz attacking
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the prosecution of her husband and comparing
it to the so-called witch hunt led by Robert
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Mueller against Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump saw this on TV.
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He liked it.
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He liked that Patti was saying this whole
thing was a witch hunt and Donald Trump was
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unfairly persecuted for all of this, and so
then he decides to go ahead and pardon her
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husband and Blagojevich is super happy.
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He says, Donald Trump, he's got a, he's got
a friend and a supporter in me is what he
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said after all this took place.
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Then of course you had Bernie Kerik also guilty
of some financial crimes, and Kerik had been
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going on Fox news recently, most specifically
Tucker Carlson's program to talk about how
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unfair the prosecutors and investigators have
been to pour little Donald Trump.
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And then of course Milken, Milken has not
been going on TV talking about how unfair
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Donald Trump has been treated, but a good
friend of his did recently hold a $10 million
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fundraiser for Donald Trump.
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And not to mention the fact that Milken is
good friends with treasury secretary, Steve
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Mnuchin.
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So that probably played a pretty big role
in Milken's pardon as well.
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Here's this thing, 11 people were pardoned
yesterday, three of them on drug offenses,
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and those are the ones that nobody's really
talking about.
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But it should have been more people for random
stupid drug offenses and none of these white
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collar criminals.
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I mean, these people that Trump is pardoning,
committed very real crimes.
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Some of them could have faced decades in prison.
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Luckily they didn't get sentences that harsh,
but that is how severe these crimes are that
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they committed.
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Meanwhile, these random drug offenses, no
other victims, just people arrested for having
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drugs on them, using drugs, maybe selling
drugs.
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Okay.
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But we're at a point in society where we're
starting to learn that maybe drugs aren't
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the most dangerous things ever, and that we
are unfairly prosecuting people for drug offenses.
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Meanwhile, these white collar criminals, Kerik,
for example, served three years, I think.
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He was facing several decades in prison.
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So Kerik wasn't even in jail anymore, right?
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This was all over with.
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Blagojevich got a lengthy prison sentence.
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He wasn't going to be released until 2024.
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Milken served about 10 years in jail and he
should have served a heck of a lot longer
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than that.
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But these men did not need clemency.
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They did not need these pardons.
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They needed to do the time and they needed
to live with that stigma.
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The drug offenses, on the other hand, these
are crimes that we created ourselves with
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our, with our foolish drug war, and our tough
on crime stance as a nation or you know, the
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crime bill that Joe Biden famously supported.
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These people were persecuted and then prosecuted.
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These other men got away with too much for
too long and made too much money on it, and
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now because they're either willing to pass
some of that money to Trump's campaign or
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to go out there and make fools of themselves
to support him, they get to walk free.
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