Trump to pardon reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley

[Meathead]

Damn, I just don't get what's in his mind. He keeps pardoning garden-variety criminals--no real sense in it, as far as I can see.
does he admire these people..feels a sense of kinship maybe.
While his followers-who used to say they had the high ground in the law and order field--just keep excusing his actions.
Why? Is it because their daughter is a RW 'influencer'?
The whole 'make the libs heads explode' thing..is wearing a bit thin, IMO.
He's just a grifter pardoning grifters..and maybe it's just as simple as that~

Trump to pardon reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley

Trump will pardon reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley who were sentenced to prison for tax evasion and bank fraud.

abcnews.go.com

President Donald Trump will pardon reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, according to a video posted by Trump's communications adviser Margo Martin on X. The couple was sentenced to prison for tax evasion and bank fraud.

According to the video, Trump called Savannah Chrisley, the couple's 27-year-old daughter, to share the news that her parents were getting pardoned and would be released from prison soon.

Savannah Chrisley appealed to the Trump administration for pardons for her parents and spoke at the 2024 Republican National Convention.

The couple, who became famous for their show "Chrisley Knows Best," were sentenced in November 2022 to a combined 19 years in prison on charges including fraud and tax evasion. Todd Chrisley was sentenced to 12 years in prison and 16 months of probation while Julie Chrisley was ordered to serve seven years in prison and 16 months of probation.
The couple was also ordered to pay $17.8 million in restitution.

Asked by ABC News if the White House could provide any background information regarding the pardons, principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields did not provide any details behind the pardons and echoed Trump's comments in the video that the couple were treated unfairly.

“The President is always pleased to give well-deserving Americans a second chance, especially those who have been unfairly targeted and overly prosecuted by an unjust justice system," Fields said in a statement to ABC News. "President Trump called Savannah and her brother from the Oval Office to personally inform them that he would be pardoning their parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, whose sentences were far too harsh."

Get back to us when he pardons his children.

 

[toobfreak]

Damn, I just don't get what's in his mind. He keeps pardoning garden-variety criminals--no real sense in it, as far as I can see.
does he admire these people..feels a sense of kinship maybe.

That's a good question, Fleeg, I don't know what the answer is, I'm just thankful that he is actually SIGNING the pardons himself and is pardoning actual, garden-variety criminals and not his own drug-addled, pedophile, gun-felon traitorous son from taking family bribes from foreign governments, or some other heinous criminals who did truly BAD THINGS.

 

[Dekster]

This was really a tax evasion case where the feds brought a bunch of additional pumped up charges to try to force them to enter guilty pleas. There had been an illegal search that tanked the state investigation that the federal magistrate judge said should have been disallowed but the federal trial judge let it in anyway. The wife's case was on its way up on her second appeal because the same judge, pissed she won a resentencing based on the judge finding her guilty for a portion of the case with zero evidence of her involvement for part of the period, dressed down a family member in open court based on podcasts and social media stuff the judge shouldn't have been looking at, and then handed down a sentence that included more probation than was allowed and in excess of what was included in the original sentence. Sure they were guilty of things, but this case was full of errors.

 

[struth]

Xiden follows the advice of his pardon czar when giving pardons

She was the victim of xiden’s 94 crime bill that was freed during trumps first admin

 

[Dekster]

I've followed this case since their conviction because so much seemed wrong with such heavy sentences. One of the issues was that an IRS agent testified that they still owed back taxes when they had actually paid those back taxes but the IRS was holding the money in a separate account without posting the payments to their individual records. One of the jurors after who was interviewed stated that had she known they had paid the taxes, she wouldn't have convicted them. The appeals court more or less blamed the Chrisley's lawyers for not refuting the IRS agent's false testimony. The judge also let in a ton of evidence that had been obtained by an illegal state search that resulted in the State of Georgia having to pay the Chrisley's a million dollar settlement. There were lots of things indicating the judge had it out for them, but the most obvious was that she reduced a co-defendant's sentence using the new guidelines, wouldn't reduce the Chrisley's, and then increased the wife's original sentence when she came back on an appeal which is a well-settled legal no-no that was already going back up on a second appeal.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Who is really surprised that the MAGA Trump Humpers would make excuses for this garbage.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Xiden follows the advice of his pardon czar when giving pardons

She was the victim of xiden’s 94 crime bill that was freed during trumps first admin

Wow, who is surprised that the number one boot licker was going to run out front making excuses for this garbage.

 

[airplanemechanic]

LOL, do you need to be reminded to remain on topic and stop trolling?
The topic was trump giving pardons. Not Biden.

Why do you guys not admit the amount of violence, the 140 injured cops, the disdain of Trump for their service in the $5mm settlement for Babbitt's family?

What ever happened to the left saying "The president can pardon whoever he wants, executive privilege?" That only worked for Biden and his crime family?

OH NO, YET ANOTHER DOUBLE STANDARD BY THE LEFT.

Babbitt was killed as an unarmed white woman by a black man whose only crime was climbing through an already broken window. That should not be a death sentence.

Yet, when Martin was holding down a dude and beating his head into the concrete, you call it murder when he was shot and killed when the guy defended himself.

YET AGAIN, double standards are the only standards the left has remaining. That would be why Trump won the house, white house, senate, all 7 swing states, 90% of all counties in the US went right, etc.

Oh that has to sting doesn't it?

 

[dudmuck]

I've followed this case since their conviction because so much seemed wrong with such heavy sentences. One of the issues was that an IRS agent testified that they still owed back taxes when they had actually paid those back taxes but the IRS was holding the money in a separate account without posting the payments to their individual records. One of the jurors after who was interviewed stated that had she known they had paid the taxes, she wouldn't have convicted them. The appeals court more or less blamed the Chrisley's lawyers for not refuting the IRS agent's false testimony. The judge also let in a ton of evidence that had been obtained by an illegal state search that resulted in the State of Georgia having to pay the Chrisley's a million dollar settlement. There were lots of things indicating the judge had it out for them, but the most obvious was that she reduced a co-defendant's sentence using the new guidelines, wouldn't reduce the Chrisley's, and then increased the wife's original sentence when she came back on an appeal which is a well-settled legal no-no that was already going back up on a second appeal.

most certainly they can afford competent lawyers if they can afford to pay a bribe.

 

[Dekster]

I think the convictions should have been booted on appeal and sent back for a new trial. The irony in that however is that Trump 45 really pushed the 11th Circuit to the right presumably to punish Georgia for coming after him so they were not inclined to give anybody anything. Since the POTUS does not have the power to order a new trial before a new judge with new prosecutors, however, I would have pardoned them too since they more or less had already served the time they should have gotten on the tax cases.

 

[struth]

Wow, who is surprised that the number one boot licker was going to run out front making excuses for this garbage.

Well knock me over with a feather, here comes Demklan Xiden's biggest fan, to attack a black lady, that was a victim of Xiden's racist law...not surprised.

Is it all black women that scare you?

 

[hadit]

I bet we will find that a large sum of money changed hands.

Be sure to let us know when that happens. Also be sure to let us know if it doesn't.

 

[TimFitz]

So much different than Biden pardoning family and political cronies, eh?

Very different.

Biden issued preemptive pardons because no one doubted that Trump was so petty that he would pursue political persecutions of anyone he didn’t like for one reason or another.

Of course, he was right.

Trump pardoning two other con artists he had never associated with before smacks of the kind of corruption that has been on full display over the past two weeks.

Makes me wonder how much “tribute” they paid for these pardons.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Very different.

Biden issued preemptive pardons because no one doubted that Trump was so petty that he would pursue political persecutions of anyone he didn’t like for one reason or another.

Of course, he was right.

Trump pardoning two other con artists he had never associated with before smacks of the kind of corruption that has been on full display over the past two weeks.

Makes me wonder how much “tribute” they paid for these pardons.

Dude, the fact that you actually believe this pile of bullshit says a lot. The irony is so incredibly heavy here, it's like WOW.

 

[TimFitz]

Trump's actions pale in comparison to the pardons and commutations that were handed out by the previous admin. Your indignation is disingenuous.

I don’t know the pardon count.

But Biden didn’t sell them. Trump does. And you make excuses for it.

 

[martybegan]

So much different than Biden pardoning family and political cronies, eh?

Actually the big difference is he's doing it early in his Term, when it can impact his support, and the support to Congressional republicans in the mid terms.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Get back to us when he pardons his children.

Non-issue.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Non-issue.

You don't see it as an issue when a president feels the need to pardon his own crime family before he leaves office?

That's funny, because the rest of America does.

 

[Auld Phart]

Or 1,100 MAGA rioters?

wow!

those MAGA rioters had been charged, many incarcerated.

how many of the Biden 'crime' family were incarcerated/fined?

 

[Meathead]

Non-issue.

Issues are things people discuss, so wrong.