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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News headlines: Tibbets murderer at top, smaller headline on pardoning Manafort, smaller 4 Cohen
Right now at
http://www.foxnews.com/
the largest headline, at the top of the page, is:
MONSTER DOWN THE ROAD
Illegal immigrant arrested in murder of Mollie Tibbetts was local farmhand, say police
Illegal immigrant arrested in murder of Mollie Tibbetts was local farmhand, say police
Below that, in smaller type:
PARDON FOR PAUL?
JOHN YOO: What President Trump must consider before giving Manafort a slide
JOHN YOO: What President Trump must consider before giving Manafort a slide
And in much smaller type farther down the page:
Ex-Trump lawyer 'more than happy' to talk and give 'all that he knows': lawyer
Btw, John Yoo writes that Trump shouldn't pardon Manafort, who's clearly guilty. However:
But if President Trump believes that Muellers investigation has gone too far, he should not resort to the pardon power to cure it.
Manafort was plainly guilty of tax evasion, on a large scale TurboTax did not just make a $15 million error on his 1040.
Instead, President Trump can stop prosecutorial abuse either by ordering Mueller to curb his investigation or even firing the special counsel and replacing him. But a pardon of Manafort would seem purely political, in contrast earlier pardons granted by Trump to defendants who had arguably been sentenced to punishments wholly out of proportion to their alleged wrongdoing.
Manafort was plainly guilty of tax evasion, on a large scale TurboTax did not just make a $15 million error on his 1040.
Instead, President Trump can stop prosecutorial abuse either by ordering Mueller to curb his investigation or even firing the special counsel and replacing him. But a pardon of Manafort would seem purely political, in contrast earlier pardons granted by Trump to defendants who had arguably been sentenced to punishments wholly out of proportion to their alleged wrongdoing.
So firing Mueller wouldn't seem "purely political" in Yoo's opinion, and the pardons of Arpaio and D'Souza don't seem political...but pardoning Manafort would.
John Yoo has a hamster wheel on a pretzel-shaped track for a brain.
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Fox News headlines: Tibbets murderer at top, smaller headline on pardoning Manafort, smaller 4 Cohen (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Aug 2018
OP
Scroll down - under "Entertainment" a story about CNN's April Ryan and the Uncredible Huck
underpants
Aug 2018
#1
Because they weren't killed by an immigrant, so it's not politically useful for them?
Va Lefty
Aug 2018
#5
underpants
(182,879 posts)1. Scroll down - under "Entertainment" a story about CNN's April Ryan and the Uncredible Huck
CNN's April Ryan says Sarah Sanders 'stirred up' threats against her, should pay for Ryan's bodyguard
oberliner
(58,724 posts)2. Almost no coverage of Christopher Watts, who killed his wife and daughters
Wondering why that horrific killing is not getting the same attention at Fox as the horrific killing in Iowa.
Zadate
(25 posts)4. My local rag has wall to wall coverage
Of that Watts fella.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)5. Because they weren't killed by an immigrant, so it's not politically useful for them?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)8. That was my thought as well
honest.abe
(8,685 posts)3. I bet they dont mention that illegal immigrant worked at a farm owned by a big time Republican.
Varaddem
(432 posts)7. John Yoo?
STFU! Prosecutorial abuse? You justified breaking the Geneva convention.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)9. War criminal. (n/t)