Per NYT: **Ron Blagojavich's sentence has been commuted by tRump**

[cynatnite]

Just got this in my email from NYT.

By commuting the sentence, the president would free Mr. Blagojevich from prison without wiping out the conviction. Republicans have advised the president against it, arguing that Mr. Blagojevich’s crime epitomizes the corruption that Mr. Trump had said he wanted to tackle as president.

The president’s decision came the same day that he pardoned Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., a former owner of the San Francisco 49ers who pleaded guilty in 1998 to concealing an extortion attempt and eventually surrendered control of his team.

[malaise]

1. He's shouting about it on my TV

right now

[cynatnite]

2. Glad I'm live streaming an eagle with her babies right now. n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Remember, you can pull the plug.

You do NOT have to use a shotgun, dynamite or large rock to get that thing off of your tv. It's tempting, but please resist.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Grifters and scumbags got to look out for each other.

Milking the peasantry for some graft is a virtue.

[HopeAgain]

4. Wonder how much that cost? NT

[Hekate]

11. Probably nothing, since he's doing it to "pwn the libs" & show how a real Caudillo does it

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Wondering out loud why now? Is something else going on, that perhaps rump is moving on...

(resigning, moving on to other things, etc.) and thus, doing the pardons while he can?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Gotta be a distraction, but from what?

[SWBTATTReg]

8. It does make one wonder. The one former governor that he's just commuted the sentence...

of, has been harping for a pardon for some time now...

[Cosmocat]

12. Hardly

this is just another move to blow up the norms of the system.

This is not a retreating move, it is another step toward his and his family ascending to become our first dictators.

[frazzled]

9. It's the very same crime Trump himself committed

Still, he's served 8 years of his 14-year sentence. He wouldn't have been eligible for parole until his 12th year (85% of his sentence). It was an unusually stiff sentence, but still galling that the felon whose sentence is being commuted is being granted early release by a fellow felon. (alliteration intended)

[duforsure]

10. Is he getting ready to resign knowing he'll very soon be exposed?

His pardons connecting to him after he does them will be reversed since they were co-conspirators committing crimes with him.

[Cosmocat]

14. Not this again ...

This is not even remotely a getting ready to resign moment.

It is another chip at the norms of the system toward his aim to NOT EVER leave the office.

[Hekate]

13. Distraction, but from what?

I seriously doubt Trump is contemplating resignation, people. He's far too invested in his delusional magnificence to give this up -- and far too useful to those still propping him up -- for him to exit the White House in any way except a stretcher.

[tblue37]

16. Deutsche Bank? nt

[Turbineguy]

15. ".... but...... he's a Democrat!"

".... I'm not commuting his sentence for that, I'm commuting his sentence because he's a crook!"

[Miles Archer]

17. One more shiny MAGAt object in the shadows of all of Trump's other crap.

It doesn't overshadow Deutsche Bank, Barr, etc etc etc.

It's another Celebrity Apprentice stunt, a distraction. Screw Trump, and screw Blago.