Trump started an unneeded war. He thought Iran would be like Venezuela. A quick in and out and done.
Well, tens to hundreds of billions of dollars later, and all Trump accomplished is
Iran put Trump in a strait jacket.
The ultimate irony is how MAGA's took the opposite view of illegals with this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez
On November 21, 1999, González, his mother Elizabeth Brotons RodrÃguez, and twelve others left Cuba on a small aluminum boat with a faulty engine...
This is no different than Trump planning to pardon 250 people for America's 250th anniversary.
So most of the pardons won't be based on being deserving, but because they needed to come up with 250 names.
Quotas as rarely a good thing.
What about the CIA Duelfer report. The one that cost $1 billion to inspect every inch of Iraq, only to find no WMD's or WMD programs.
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-DUELFERREPORT/context
This $1.7 billion payout settled a decades-old legal dispute at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague and was structured into two parts:
$400 Million Principal: This originated from a trust fund established by the pre-1979 Iranian government to purchase U.S. military equipment. After the...
Thus, the district court ruled that a "jury reasonably
could find, even from the Access Hollywood tape alone, that Mr. Trump admitted in the Access Hollywood tape that he in fact has had contact with women's genitalia in the past without their consent, or that he has attempted to do so."...
It isn't perjury, because that requires the statement being germane to the case.
First, district courts regularly exclude evidence of litigation
financing under Rule 401, finding it "irrelevant to credibility" and that it "does not assist the factfinder in determining whether or not the witness...