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lol Trump talking about the quid pro quo
Trump seething because his corrupt pardon of Henry Cuellar didn't workHenry Cuellar is accused of accepting $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijani oil company and a Mexican bank
Pardoned by Trump
Last edited by Winehole23; 12-07-2025 at 01:49 PM.
lol Trump talking about the quid pro quo
(Cuellar voted with Republicans ~56% of the time in 2024, 5th politically most to the right among Dems)
smuggled 400 tons of cocaine to the US
https://newrepublic.com/article/2041...terview-fiasco
reported cost of a Trump pardon, ~$1M
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...ocess-dda97c15
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
Medicare fraudster whose sentence was commuted by Trump is rearrested for domestic violence
Trump's DOJ convicted him in 2019 of 20 criminal counts in what was then the largest Medicare health care fraud ever prosecuted
Philip Esformes, whose 20-year prison sentence for a massive, $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme was commuted in 2020 by then-President Donald Trump, was arrested over the weekend in Florida on domestic-violence related charges.
Esformes is at least the seventh person who received executive clemency from Trump, and has since been charged with new crimes, according to The New York Times, which first reported this latest arrest.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna175681The DOJ said that Esformes and co-conspirators for more than two decades cycled thousands of Medicare and Medicaid patients through a network of nursing and assisted living facilities despite the fact they did not qualify for such care.
pardoned campaign funds embezzler Duncan Hunter lobbies for a pardon for a Republican CSAM fancier
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/01/12/disgraced-congressman-duncan-hunter-got-a-trump-pardon-now-he-wants-one-for-another-notorious-san-diego-son-of-washington/Today, Duncan D. Hunter and Raymond Liddy are both convicted felons, and the former congressman is lobbying President Donald Trump to pardon Liddy, who is the son of a notorious Watergate figure and was convicted of possessing child pornography.
According to a federal disclosure filed late last year, Hunter is working to secure a pardon for the son of G. Gordon Liddy, who went to prison for overseeing the break-in of Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel and other crimes that drove Richard Nixon from the White House.
The lobbying report was submitted by Tommy Marquez, chief executive officer at Tommy Marquez Consulting, a government affairs firm based in Grapevine, Texas. Marquez listed Hunter as a consultant to his company.
The single-page do ent shows that Marquez and Hunter are seeking a presidential pardon for Liddy, who was convicted in 2020 of possessing child pornography.
Neither Hunter, Marquez nor Liddy responded to requests for comment on the lobbying efforts, which were disclosed in a federally required filing dated Nov. 6.
Liddy, who is 62 and lives in a $6 million home in Coronado, was sentenced to five years of probation following his criminal conviction in a bench trial, which means the case was decided by a judge rather than a jury.
He also lost his job at the California Department of Justice and was disbarred.
In a 2021 appeal, Liddy’s attorneys argued the judge had made reversible errors in allowing certain evidence. They said Liddy was wrongly convicted and never downloaded the images at issue.
The appeal was rejected.
Federal court records in Tennessee show Liddy violated his probation in 2023 and was sent to prison.
Among the violations, records show, Liddy was arrested for drunken driving in South San Diego County in 2021. According to court records, he threatened his probation officer, called her a racial slur and repeatedly abused drugs and alcohol.
“Both Mr. Liddy and his wife, Courtney Liddy, continued calling (the officer) obscene names to include ‘b—’ and ‘mother—’ as well as telling the probation officer to ‘go f— yourself’ and ‘we know where you are n— and we will find and kill you,’” the May 9, 2023, warrant pe ion says.
worst man in the world pardons the worst people in the world
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/...ng-raw-sewage/On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a “full and unconditional pardon” for Diamond Environmental Services owner Arie Eric De Jong III, who was sentenced in 2018 to five months in prison for illegally dumping raw sewage into municipal sewer systems.
According to prosecutors, the portable toilet company unlawfully dumped waste from its trucks into public sewer systems across several Southern California cities, including San Diego, San Marcos, Fullerton, Perris, and Huntington Park, rather than disposing of it at approved facilities and paying the required fees, allowing De Jong III to dodge millions in expenses.
Per a copy of the pardon posted by The New York Times’ Kenneth Vogel, Trump cleared De Jong III of all felony charges against the United States, to all of which he had pleaded guilty under a 2017 agreement.
straight up selling pardons
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisond...-by-president/
Trump loves rich crooks who suck up to him
In this case, a crypto dude who renounced his US citizenship to evade taxes got DOJ to drop charges and settle
https://www.propublica.org/article/b...s-of-trump-dojDays into President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, a cryptocurrency billionaire posted a video on X to his hundreds of thousands of followers. “Please Donald Trump, I need your help,” he said, wearing a flag pin askew and seated awkwardly in an armchair. “I am an American. … Help me come home.”
The speaker, 46-year-old Roger Ver, was in fact no longer a U.S. citizen. Nicknamed “Bitcoin Jesus” for his early evangelism for digital currency, Ver had renounced his citizenship more than a decade earlier. At the time of his video, Ver was under criminal indictment for millions in tax evasion and living on the Spanish island of Mallorca. His top-flight legal defense team had failed around half a dozen times to persuade the Justice Department to back down. The U.S., considering him a fugitive, was seeking his extradition from Spain, and he was likely looking at prison.
Once, prosecutors hoped to make Ver a marquee example amid concerns about widespread cryptocurrency tax evasion. They had spent eight painstaking years working the case. Just nine months after his direct-to-camera appeal, however, Ver and Trump’s new Justice Department leadership cut a remarkable deal to end his prosecution. Ver wouldn’t have to plead guilty or spend a day in prison. Instead, the government accepted a payout of $49.9 million — roughly the size of the tax bill prosecutors said he dodged in the first place — and allowed him to walk away.
Ver was able to pull off this coup by taking advantage of a new dynamic inside of Trump’s Department of Justice. A cottage industry of lawyers, lobbyists and consultants with close ties to Trump has sprung up to help people and companies seek leniency, often by arguing they had been victims of political persecution by the Biden administration. In his first year, Trump issued pardons or clemency to dozens of people who were convicted of various forms of white-collar crime, including major donors and political allies. Investigations have been halted. Cases have been dropped.
Within the Justice Department, a select club of Trump’s former personal attorneys have easy access to the top appointees, some of whom also previously represented Trump. It has become a dark joke among career prosecutors to refer to these lawyers as the “Friends of Trump.”
Another J6 rioter pardoned by Trump subsequently sexually abused children
I think we're up to five or six cases like this now
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/11/nx-s1...hild-sex-abuseOn Tuesday, a jury in Hernando County, Fla., found Andrew Paul Johnson guilty of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16, as well as lewd and lascivious exhibition. Johnson was acquitted of one charge of sending sexual material to a child.
the only question in mind my is whether it's bad vetting or no vetting for Trump pardons
Trump sure can pick em
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...-cr-rcna261963Andrew Paul Johnson was arrested in August, nine months after Trump pardoned him and hundreds of other Jan. 6 defendants for crimes ranging from low-level misdemeanors to felony charges like assaulting officer with deadly weapons.
Johnson, 45, was convicted last month of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16, as well as transmitting harmful materials by electronic device to a minor.
He has been sentenced to life, according to the Office of State Attorney Bill Gladson of the Fifth Judicial Circuit in Florida.
www.cato.org/blog/embarra...That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion."
What is it with J6ers and child born?
Another guy Trump pardoned goes to the clink for CSAM
https://www.masslive.com/westernmass...ossession.htmlDaniel Tocci, an Amherst man who President Donald Trump pardoned from charges connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to four years’ incarceration Wednesday after pleading guilty to child pornography possession.
blanket pardons aren't needed unless you're breaking the law on purpose
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...ffice-d7274d32
violent J6 sshole charged with sexual assault and kidnapping
(not pardoned by Trump, J6 charges were dropped)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...aulting-woman/A U.S. Capitol riot defendant who was accused of firing a gun into the air while among the mob on Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021, now faces charges of sexual assault and kidnapping in Utah.
Prosecutors allege John Banuelos, 40, attacked a woman in the Salt Lake City area in 2018, three years prior to his alleged involvement in the Capitol siege, according to court filings obtained by CBS News.
A DNA test conducted in August linked Banuelos to the 2018 sex assault, prosecutors allege in a charging do ent filed in Utah.
Banuelos' charges in his U.S. Capitol riot case were dismissed and he was released from custody in January 2025, after President Trump granted clemency to the more than 1,500 people convicted of charges stemming from the Capitol attack.
pardoned GOP fundraiser gets DOJ contract
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...roidy-contractThe day before Donald Trump’s first term ended in 2021, he inked a pardon for Elliott Broidy, a scandal-plagued Republican fundraiser and former Republican National Committee official who had pleaded guilty three months earlier to trying to illegally lobby Trump and his administration.
Last month, a company headed by Broidy won a $106m contract from the Department of Justice, according to federal contracting records.
Under the contract, awarded by the Bureau of Prisons to LEO Technologies, the company will use artificial intelligence to translate, transcribe and monitor prison phone calls. Broidy lists himself as the founder and CEO of LEO.
Just before Trump’s 2020 election loss, Broidy pleaded guilty to taking $9m in payments from a foreign national to try to lobby Trump and Trump’s justice department to end a criminal case and to push for the extradition of a Chinese businessman.
Trump’s own justice department at the time wrote that “Broidy agreed to lobby the President of the United States, the Attorney General, and other high level officials in the Administration and the Department of Justice”.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article...-other-chargesAt least 97 of the more than 1,500 individuals granted clemency by President Trump for their roles in the January 6 Capitol attack have been arrested for, charged with, or convicted of crimes separate from Jan. 6 since their participation in the Jan. 6 riot.
game recognizes game
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-...ng-2026-06-06/
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