Trump ran a factually inaccurate ad trying to promote his criminal justice reform using Alice Johnso
Our only hope is for a Dem to win the election!!! --then we can tell Barr bye bye also!
Fact-Check: Criminal justice reform didn’t save Alice Johnson — Kim Kardashian did
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/iowa-crowd-goes-wild-as-msnbcs-mika-denounces-joni-ernst-as-a-useful-idiot/
Published 22 hours on February 2, 2020
President Donald Trump ran a factually inaccurate ad trying to promote his criminal justice reform using Alice Johnson as his spokesperson. The problem is that Alice Johnson was not a benefactor of Trump’s criminal justice reform, she had thousands of Americans advocating on her behalf, and one, in particular, was Kim Kardashian, who went to the White House to lobby Trump personally.
Johnson was unfairly sent to prison for life using absurd drug laws in a failed criminal system. She was convicted in 1996 for being involved in a cocaine-trafficking organization. Trump granted her clemency; his criminal justice reform law wasn’t involved at all.
According to the Washington Post, last April, Trump wanted to bring Gregory Allen and other former inmates to the White House after their release. The problem was that the Justice Department didn’t want to let Allen out of prison......................................
“In fact, even as he and Trump shared a joyous embrace on television, federal prosecutors were trying to persuade a judge to put Allen back behind bars,” the Post wrote. “The president has repeatedly pointed to the First Step Act as one of his administration’s chief bipartisan achievements and one for which he is personally responsible. But cases like Allen’s expose a striking rift between the White House allies who supported the law and the Justice Department officials now working to limit the number of inmates who might benefit from it.”.........................
.......“Barr didn’t just support some of the worst criminal-justice policies of the 1990s, he wrote and helped implement many of them. While attorney general in the George H.W. Bush administration, he oversaw the publication of a report called “The Case for More Incarceration.”
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