easyt65
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No, the mistake was NOT in exercising his Presidential authority and pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
It was when he attempted to defend his action to the Leftard Media by comparing his pardon of Arpaio to the heinous criminal pardons handed out by Clinton and Obama, especially Clinton's pardon of Marc Ritch!
Trump: Arpaio pardon pretty much the same as the Rich, Rosenberg pardons, right? - Hot Air
"Asked about decision to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday, Pres. Trump recites list of past presidential pardons: https://t.co/MI9rDKf933 pic.twitter.com/qCjNS5r9qL
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 28, 2017"
1. "If the benchmark is the Marc Rich pardon, well, everything is going to clear that bar. Unlike Arpaio, or the “Weathered” Underground figure Susan Rosenberg and drug dealer Carlos Vignali, none of these fled the country to avoid prosecution before getting a clemency action. Rich was indeed the worst of the worst, but, er … does Trump really want to resort to a comparison to Rich? Does Arpaio appreciate that comparison?"
The answer, of course, is 'NO'. Trump does not WANT to or NEED to LOWER what he did to the level of Clinton and Obama pardoning criminals fleeing the country or terrorists who attacked / bombed their own country / fellow Americans.
2. "There’s a problem with the others mentioned by Trump in this press conference — none of them were pardons. Susan Rosenberg and Carlos Vignali got their sentences commuted by Bill Clinton, not pardons. Those clemency actions sprung them from jail, but they did not remove their convictions from the record. The same is true for two clemency actions cited by Trump supporters during Barack Obama’s presidency — Bradley/Chelsea Manning and FALN terrorist Oscar López Rivera. As bad as both those decisions were, they only commuted sentences. The judgment of the American justice system remains on them, but not Arpaio."
Bill Clinton and Barak Obama did not even use the power of the Pardon. Much like how Obama did with terrorists and the Taliban 5 (treasonously during a time of war), Clinton and Obama simply SET THE CRIMINALS AND TERRORISTS FREE by commuting their sentences.
None of this will matter to the partisanly blind sheep, though. No matter what happens or is revealed, 'DNC = Good, GOP = Bad', even if they have to hypocritically hold them to different standards, create Fake News, or break laws to justify that claim.
It was when he attempted to defend his action to the Leftard Media by comparing his pardon of Arpaio to the heinous criminal pardons handed out by Clinton and Obama, especially Clinton's pardon of Marc Ritch!
Trump: Arpaio pardon pretty much the same as the Rich, Rosenberg pardons, right? - Hot Air
"Asked about decision to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday, Pres. Trump recites list of past presidential pardons: https://t.co/MI9rDKf933 pic.twitter.com/qCjNS5r9qL
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 28, 2017"
1. "If the benchmark is the Marc Rich pardon, well, everything is going to clear that bar. Unlike Arpaio, or the “Weathered” Underground figure Susan Rosenberg and drug dealer Carlos Vignali, none of these fled the country to avoid prosecution before getting a clemency action. Rich was indeed the worst of the worst, but, er … does Trump really want to resort to a comparison to Rich? Does Arpaio appreciate that comparison?"
The answer, of course, is 'NO'. Trump does not WANT to or NEED to LOWER what he did to the level of Clinton and Obama pardoning criminals fleeing the country or terrorists who attacked / bombed their own country / fellow Americans.
2. "There’s a problem with the others mentioned by Trump in this press conference — none of them were pardons. Susan Rosenberg and Carlos Vignali got their sentences commuted by Bill Clinton, not pardons. Those clemency actions sprung them from jail, but they did not remove their convictions from the record. The same is true for two clemency actions cited by Trump supporters during Barack Obama’s presidency — Bradley/Chelsea Manning and FALN terrorist Oscar López Rivera. As bad as both those decisions were, they only commuted sentences. The judgment of the American justice system remains on them, but not Arpaio."
Bill Clinton and Barak Obama did not even use the power of the Pardon. Much like how Obama did with terrorists and the Taliban 5 (treasonously during a time of war), Clinton and Obama simply SET THE CRIMINALS AND TERRORISTS FREE by commuting their sentences.
None of this will matter to the partisanly blind sheep, though. No matter what happens or is revealed, 'DNC = Good, GOP = Bad', even if they have to hypocritically hold them to different standards, create Fake News, or break laws to justify that claim.