WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump issued a second pardon to a Jan. 6 defendant who had remained behind bars despite the sweeping grant of clemency for Capitol rioters because of a separate conviction for illegally possessing firearms. The decision is the latest example of Trump's willingness to use his constitutional authority to help supporters who once tried to keep him in power despite his loss to President Joe Biden in 2020.
To confront Donald Trump is to engage in asymmetric warfare. It is to enter a battlefield that is not level, where he enjoys an immediate and in-built advantage over those who would oppose him or merely hold him to account. That fact has cost Democrats dearly over the past decade exacting a toll again this very week but it has now upended an institution central to Britain's national life: namely, the BBC.
When high-powered Democratic attorney Kathryn Ruemmler - now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs - needed to vent about Donald Trump's rise in politics, she turned to their mutual acquaintance, Jeffrey Epstein. "Trump is living proof of the adage that it is better to be lucky than smart," she told Epstein in an email in August 2015, while planning a visit to his Manhattan mansion.
In Sora Not Sorry, which aired Wednesday evening, Trump and Vance are depicted having intercourse in the Lincoln Bedroom. But boss, what about Satan? the cartoon Vance, depicted as a version of Fantasy Island's Tattoo, asked Trump while the two lay in bed together. In the latest season, the cartoon Trump is in a toxic relationship with Satan and the two are expecting a baby. The cartoon Vance has been working behind the scenes to have the baby aborted.