No. of Recommendations: 4
Sure, Trump has the authority to make these pardons, but never has it been used for such blatantly corrupt reasons. SO MUCH CORRUPTION!
Paul Walczak
The pardon power continues to need reform!!!
Paul Walczak was a nursing home executive who pleaded guilty late last year to charges of using his employees’ withheld earnings to buy a yacht, fancy clothes, and things of that nature. He was sentence to 18 months in the slammer and ordered to pay $4.4 million in restitution. Then his mother—who was separately intimately involved in exposing Ashley Biden’s diary—donated $1 million to have dinner with Donald Trump. Walczak was pardoned a few weeks later. Not great. In fact, some would call this bad.
Trump’s pardons were frequent this week. He gave clemency to an Illinois gang leader, a former governor of Connecticut, an ex–Staten Island congressman, and a tax-fraud reality television couple. If you’re MAGA—and ideally if you put a chunk of money into a Trump fund—a pardon has never been more available. Just look, for example, at the debasement that former Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, scheduled to report to jail in June, is subjecting himself to. This spree comes as the former interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, “Eagle” Ed Martin, assumes his new role as a pardon attorney at the DOJ. And his message this week? “No MAGA left behind.” It’s all out in the open. Slate's The Gist
