Trump pardons fraudster

[XponentialChaos]

I don’t see any good reason for him to be pardoned.

I suspect that he kissed Trump’s ass really nicely. Trump likes that.

 

[TNHarley]

Lawyer FILTH making up evidence? Heaven Forbid. What would Mike Nifong think. Or the defendents in the McMartin PreSchool Case.

Lawyers being scum? I can't imagine such a thing. Next thing you'll be trying to tell me is that dimocraps are scum. Or Judges......

Trump lawyers made up evidence he admitted to?
Trump lawyers are scum?
What does that say about trump?

 

[j-mac]

How convenient for you.
Im not a conservative. Im farther right than that. Although im closer to it than trump supporters.

Maybe in your warped mind…Look, Trump isn’t a conservative, but he’s closer than you that’s for sure…He wants to restore American exceptionalism, the Constitution, and put American interests first above that of other nations that would pick our pockets clean. Smaller, more efficient government, and energy independence, restoring the American dream. What’s wrong with that?

 

[Edgetho]

Maybe in your warped mind…Look, Trump isn’t a conservative, but he’s closer than you that’s for sure…He wants to restore American exceptionalism, the Constitution, and put American interests first above that of other nations that would pick our pockets clean. Smaller, more efficient government, and energy independence, restoring the American dream. What’s wrong with that?

Liberturdians are scum

 

[j-mac]

Liberturdians are scum

Too much pot.

 

[westwall]

Don't expect any thinking from his cult. They'll just operate as programmed.

Just. Like. You.

 

[Edgetho]

Too much pot.

Is that what makes them so gutless?

 

[j-mac]

Is that what makes them so gutless?

They’re fence sitters, hell bent on thinking that they’re smarter than everyone else, but can never seem to win an election of consequence…

 

[Independent thinker]

Pardoned by Trump but not by Arkansas, nursing home crook reports to state prison on his birthday - Arkansas Times

A felon from New York reports to the Arkansas Department of Corrections for at least 31 days behind bars.

arktimes.com

Schwartz was sentenced in federal court in April to 36 months in federal prison for his role in a $38 million employment tax fraud scheme, having willfully failed to pay taxes owed. He withheld the amounts from employees’ paychecks, then pocketed it. His financial misdeeds also left grocery bills unpaid, in some instances forcing nursing home staff to buy food for residents.

Schwartz pleaded guilty in Arkansas to one count of Medicaid fraud and one count of attempting to evade or defeat tax, both felonies. He was sentenced to 12 months in the Arkansas Department of Corrections and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine, court costs and restitution totaling $1,801,620.53.

Good thing he isnt somali and didnt run daycares, or trump might have insulted him on twitter, instead of a pardon.
"im going to attack venezuela because of drugs" 2 minutes later he pardons a drug kingpin.
This dude is a ******* joke.

And Biden pre-pardoned family members. How bad is that?

 

[dudmuck]

And Biden pre-pardoned family members. How bad is that?

its a blanket pardon to protect against political attacks.

 

[Independent thinker]

its a blanket pardon to protect against political attacks.

LOL. Yeah, sure. By the way, I have some oceanfront property in Iowa I can sell cheap.

 

[Edgetho]

They’re fence sitters, hell bent on thinking that they’re smarter than everyone else, but can never seem to win an election of consequence…

IOW, gutless

 

[berg80]

The Constitution grants sweeping pardon powers to the president, which means that public opinion has historically been the only check on that power. The risk of a backlash is the reason that presidents have waited until their last days in office to issue many pardons and commutations, especially dubious ones to family members (like Hunter Biden) or political allies (like Caspar W. Weinberger, whom George H.W. Bush pardoned). The potential for a backlash also made presidents cautious about the number of pardons they issued. They understood that there could be an outcry if somebody who received a pardon later committed a new crime. The pardon system has also relied on the decency of American presidents.

President Trump has abandoned this approach. His self-serving pardons are so numerous that public attention cannot keep up with them. It is a version of the strategy that his former adviser Steve Bannon has described as “flood the zone”: Do so much so fast that people cannot follow the consequences.

He has created a veritable pardon industry, in which people with White House connections accept payments from wealthy convicts. Among those on whom he has bestowed freedom are dozens of people convicted of fraud. He has also pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras, who helped traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States, and Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for running Silk Road, a sprawling criminal enterprise that sold drugs. There seems to be no crime too ugly for a Trump pardon.

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Worst of all, Mr. Trump granted clemency on the first day of his second term to everyone who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He did not distinguish between rioters who were relatively peaceful and those who attacked police officers, as Vice President JD Vance said should be the case. About 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters received a clean slate, regardless of their actions.

The results have been disastrous. At least 12 of the pardoned rioters have since been charged with other serious crimes, including child molestation, assault, harassment, murder plots and charges related to a vicious dog attack. The outcome was predictable. Critics, including this board, had warned that Mr. Trump’s pardons would embolden the rioters by signaling that crime has no consequences. One does not have to be a criminologist to predict that people who commit a violent act and are absolved of any punishment might become repeat offenders.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/opinion/trump-jan-6-pardons-crimes-recidivism.html?campaign_id=39&emc=edit_ty_20260331&instance_id=173354&nl=opinion-today&regi_id=65145149&segment_id=217515&user_id=fecdfdffdaaa11107b72f0f4f6e429cc

To my knowledge, none of the people Biden pardoned went on to commit crimes.