Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
  • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Oh look - a blatant quid pro quo.

    Supreme Court apologists have weakly been trying to excuse the Court’s “gifts aren’t bribes” ruling by pointing out that it still counts as corruption if the thing of value is given in advance and if there’s an overt quid pro quo involved.

    Both of those are the case here, so even by the Court’s new abysmally weak standards, this counts as official corruption.

    So who thinks anything will come of it?

    Yeah - me neither.

  • kautau@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Ms. Fago was invited to a $1-million-per-person fund-raising dinner last month that promised face-to-face access to Mr. Trump at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.

    Less than three weeks after she attended the dinner, Mr. Trump signed a full and unconditional pardon.

    Mr. Walczak’s pardon application argued that his criminal prosecution was motivated more by his mother’s efforts for Mr. Trump than by his admitted use of money earmarked for employees’ taxes to fund an extravagant lifestyle.

    Ah yes, already has a rich MAGA mommy but it’s not enough unless you’re fucking over someone else.

    It came just in the nick of time for Mr. Walczak, sparing him from having to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution and from reporting to prison for an 18-month sentence that had been handed down just 12 days earlier. A judge had justified the incarceration by declaring that there “is not a get-out-of-jail-free card” for the rich.

    There is. There always has been.