BREAKING: Trump About To Pardon 3 Major Stars – Do They Deserve It?
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President Donald Trump is preparing to pardon three very well known and major stars. The critics are discussing if they deserve to be pardoned. Trump recently provided a posthumous pardon for boxer Jack Johnson and now he’s prepping to pardon three more big names who might be very familiar to you.
Some of Trump’s biggest critics might crash down hard on him after the pardons, but Trump seems to be prepared for any backlash that he might receive. If he can handle the criticism and outbursts from his opponents from when he pardoned Joe Arpaio, then this should be a walk in the park in comparison. Trump was highly criticized for his pardon of Arpaio and took massive amounts of criticism for it, but that didn’t stop him from carrying on with his days and it seems like that pardon is long forgotten anyway. Setting Jack Johnson free posthumously was a noble move that pleased many, but the critics still claimed it came many years too late. Of course, that was out of Trump’s hands until now.
His next set of pardons will likely have you recognizing at least two of the three names. They each are well known for different reasons and have very different jobs, and were legally punished for very different crimes. Trump believes the pardon is necessary and many of his supporters do as well. The three people about to be pardoned certainly wouldn’t argue against it, that’s for sure!
The most definite pardon is Dinesh D’Souza. He is a political commentator who allegedly made illegal campaign contributions. Trump is also highly considering Rod Blagojevich, a former Illinois Governor and Martha Stewart – the lady people look to for recipes or home decorations and lifestyle type of things. Martha Stewart is a name some people haven’t heard in a while. She spent some time in the clink and there were quite a few funny pictures of her wearing an orange prison suit circulating the web.
USA Today wrote: “Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D’Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government!” Trump tweeted Thursday as he headed to Texas on Air Force One.
While in flight, he told reporters that Blagojevich’s attempt to sell former President Barack Obama’s Illinois Senate seat when he became president was “a stupid thing to say” but not worth 18 years in prison.
And he said a pardon of Stewart had also crossed his mind. Stewart, the head of a publishing and television empire who once hosted a spinoff of Trump’s Apprentice reality show, was convicted of insider trading in 2004.
D’Souza is serving five years probation for making illegal campaign contributions
“Obama & his stooges tried to extinguish my American dream & destroy my faith in America,” D’Souza responded on Twitter. “My heartfelt thanks to those who prayed for me, supported me & reached out on social media to President Trump to pardon me.”
D’Souza pleaded guilty of making “straw donations” in the names of others to support the candidacy of Republican New York Senate candidate Wendy Long, who lost to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Those straw donations allowed him to give $20,000 in illegal contributions to the campaign, exceeding the $5,000 legal limit.
And though he argued that he was being selectively prosecuted because of his attacks on Obama, he later backed off the claim at his sentencing.
“I’m sorry for what I did. I have never said otherwise,” he said. “I have never even said I am being selectively prosecuted. I feared that I was being.”
The new round of pardons would continue Trump’s use of clemency power to correct what he perceives as unjust, politically motivated prosecutions. But they also come amid investigations into his own campaign and inner circle — including a probe into whether his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, violated the law when he illegally paid off a porn star who said she had a relationship with Trump.
Rick Hasen, a University of California, Irvine law professor who specializes in election law, said the pardon sends “yet another signal to Michael Cohen and others about the possibility of a Trump pardon — and this one, like potentially Cohen’s case — involves campaign finance violations.”
The pardon would mark the fifth full pardon granted by Trump during his presidency — all without going through the formal channels of the Justice Department. And it continues a pattern of politically motivated pardons that include former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Bush White House aide Scooter Libby.