Did I just hear that the Vile MAGcretin has pardoned

[malaise]

Conrad Black?

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/16/723849097/trump-pardons-his-friend-conrad-black-who-wrote-glowing-trump-biography-last-yea

President Trump has granted a pardon to former media mogul and society figure Conrad Black, who was convicted of fraud in 2007.

Black is also a friend of the president's, and frequently praises him in his newspaper columns. Last year, Black published a biography of Trump, titled Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other.

"Donald Trump's nature has always been to believe that almost anything can be achieved—that almost any obstacle and challenge can be overcome—through very hard work and cunning," Black writes in the first chapter.

Black grew a newspaper empire from one newspaper in Quebec to what was at one point the third-largest newspaper company in the world, with the Chicago Sun-Times and the London Daily Telegraph among its holdings.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Yup...

I remember the squealing from the repigs when Clinton pardoned Marc Rich... that I'm not hearing now! Go figure.

[malaise]

2. Just found a link

Vile cretins of a feather flock together

[True Dough]

10. There are a few parallels between them, to be sure

and they're all reprehensible.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Yes, it's being posted elsewhere on the Web. nt

[Jarqui]

4. Wonder what the real deal was ... nt

[NewJeffCT]

6. he wrote a book that praised Trump

I'm thinking that was the main reason - Trump loves flattery

[malaise]

8. There's an even better reason - from Gidney N Cloyd's thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212102114

The statement didn’t mention that under Black’s ownership, the Sun-Times sold its building at Wabash Avenue on the Chicago River to Trump on the site where Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago now stands. The two had been partners in the project before Trump bought out Black.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. He also owned the Chicago Sun-Times

and sold the building that housed it to Spanky to build the Chicago drumpf building. Essentially, they were business partners as well.

[anarch]

5. yay, there is finally hope for all the reasonably punished thieves and conmen

who happen to be in good graces with King MAGAt. Birds of a feather, after all.

I'm surprised he hasn't pardoned a few white-supremacist church shooters yet.

[malaise]

7. Don't rule that out

These fascists are sick

[RussBLib]

11. anything can be achieved

that is true, but "through very hard work and cunning"?

HARD WORK? Trump? We talking about Trump? Tee time!