Last week brought a record number of presidential pardons, including 1,500 commutations of the sentences of 'nonviolent' felons, most of whom were already serving their sentences at home after being sprung from prison during COVID.
If there's a more direct way of announcing to America that all their suspicions about elite self-dealing are true - that rules and regulations and laws don't matter if you have enough cash and clout - we'd love to hear about it.
A Pennsylvania judge who took bribes to send kids to a for-profit 'detention' center; an Illinois clerk who embezzled over $53 million from a town of just 15,000 people; a Massachusetts woman convicted for a fentanyl-trafficking conspiracy.
Small wonder that a meager 22% of Americans back the pardon and tons of Biden's fellow Dems, like Sen. Amy Klobuchar, primary challenger Rep. Dean Phillips, Colo. Gov. Jared Polis and even his own former top aide Anita Dunn all have cried foul.
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