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Even as Donald Trump, aka the Mango Mussolini, goes about intimidating, INVESTIGATING and indicting POLITICAL ENEMIES with little evidence or with unqualified prosecutors, he simultaneously grants pardons and commutes sentences for FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS and POLITICAL ALLIES convicted of FRAUD, drugs, even, ironically, HUMAN SEX TRAFFICKING.
Sometimes he even launches investigations of crimes for which his own political allies and/or cabinet members may be COMPLICIT—not that that he allows that pesky little fact to be a deterrent.
Of course, it would be unfair to single out only Trump for his spate of pardons when former President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of a PENNSYLVANIA JUDGE who was convicted of participating in the notorious “cash for kids” scheme of wholesale sentencing of juveniles to privately-run detention centers in exchange for bribes.
But Trump appears to have elevated the practice of pardons for cash to a new level. Nursing home magnate, for example, sentenced to three years for defrauding the government of $38 million (a light sentence in itself), he was pardoned by Trump after seven months and only after paying two lobbyist $960,000 to seek the federal pardon—a luxury not readily available to the average prison inmate. Kinda gives the lie to his claimed love of “the little people.”
Basically, it’s an affirmation to the axiom “Money talks, B.S. walks,” though Trump, as is his wont, has denied any ties to the payments and his granting of the pardon.
At the same time that he is pardoning SWINDLERS (his latest pardon recipient took 10,000 investors for about $1.6 billion) and CON MEN, he is murdering VENEZUELANS on open seas who he claims—without providing any evidence—are members of drug cartels (can you say VENEZUELAN OIL, boys and girls?).
…And thar’s black gold in that thar Venezuela. But the story of how Donald Trump is using the unsubstantiated claim of drug cartels to launch a war with that country, just remember the weapons of mass destruction claim leading up to an insane 20-year, $5.8 trillion Mideast/Afghanistan wars. At the same time Trump’s murdering so-called members of the Venezuelan drug cartel. Does anyone else see the irony in granting pardons to real DRUG SMUGGLERS?
He also is pardoning traffickers, WAR CRIMINALS and rioters from the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol INSURRECTION (many of whom were later charged with NEW CRIMES). Trump finds times to prioritize the pursuit of political enemies by weaponizing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice—most often to bad outcomes for his administration.
And before any of you jump in to say Trump was unaware of whom he was pardoning, may I remind you that if you’re going to invoke that as a defense, you’re making two simultaneous admissions: that Trump was a dumbass (actually, that’s a given) for not knowing and that you are equally gullible for defending him on those grounds.
After ordering and failing to convince one U.S. attorney to indict former FBI Director Jack Smith and New York Attorney General Letitia James, he had Bondi appoint an inexperienced—and certainly unqualified—attorney, Lindsey Halligan, who would do his bidding. The result was what most experts thought it would be for a weak case against the two. The cases were THROWN OUT.
After Halligan more or less bypassed the grand jury in issuing the indictments—illegally, it turned out—U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan also ruled that Halligan was also appointed illegally. Was that an embarrassment for Trump, et al? Nope. Bondi immediately announced she would appeal. This bunch of clowns doesn’t learn lessons easily.
No Sooner had Trump gone after Comey and James than he turned his sights on U.S. Rep. ERIC STALWELL, Federal Reserve board member LISA COOK and former U.S. Rep. ADAM SCHIFF of mortgage fraud—the same offense he accused Cook of. . Trump’s victims are beginning to fight back, however. Stalwell has since filed a LAWSUIT against the director of the Housing Finance Agency.
Those “investigations” are quite likely to go the same way as the Comey/James prosecutions.
But undeterred, Trump has now upped the ante immeasurably with accusation of SEDITION (“punishable by death”) leveled against DEMOCRATIC VETERANS in Congress, particularly one in particular—Sen. Mark Kelly, a combat veteran (something Agent Orange knows nothing about) and a former astronaut. Their offense? Citing an oath that members of the military must take proclaiming that they do not have to carry out illegal orders.
Plaque in Constitution Corner of U.S. Military Academy erected by the Class of 1943–a class, by the way, with considerably more class than Agent Orange or boozer Hegseth.
Did you ever see a piggy with egg on its face? How about two simultaneous piggies? That’s about what we’re getting ready to witness when this foolhardy effort by PEDO-POTUS falls flatter than roadkill possum.
By taking on someone with the reputation and creds of Mark Kelly, Trump is about to find out just what it means to step over a line, to go a bridge too far. There are some battles even this pretentious buffoon cannot hope to win.
If there was ever a doubt, this ill-chosen fight has revealed him to be a clueless fool.
I defy you to find a single person in Trump’s cabinet who is qualified for his or her position. One single, qualified individual, that’s all I ask. Just one. (Stormy Daniels doesn’t count: she’s not a cabinet member.)
But hey, this is what justice looks like in this administration.
Louisiana Voice 
Listing the depredations and perversions of Trump’s wannabe Fourth Reich would take the rest of 2025. But the thing that stands out to me more than anything else is the mewling cowardice of the MAGA fascists. Not a one of them has the courage to own the utterly bankrupt things they say and do. Hegseth is just one example. He beats his chest and struts his warrior persona until he orders the unlawful murder of survivors then he quickly lays the blame on someone else, which is SOP in Trump’s orbit. And all the fascist sycophants vie with each other to excuse murder or defend Trump and Hegseth. The Trump administration is inhabited by cowards and liars getting away with murder with the approval and support of 75 million fascist betrayers to the Constitution and the rule of law. The 1958 novel “The Ugly American” doesn’t even begin to describe what has crawled out of the sewer in 2025 and is now the face of America to the rest of the world.