Democrats sound the alarm on alleged Trump pardon bribery scheme

[edhopper]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/corruption-democrats-sound-the-alarm-on-alleged-trump-pardon-bribery-scheme/ar-AA14VGSs?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=fa062ee51bc84aa483e2ea6aac387b0e

U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva and committee member Rep. Katie Porter are investigating an alleged bribery scheme in which they believe a real estate developer donated to a super PAC aligned in support of former President Donald Trump in exchange for pardons for two other men.

The two Democrats wrote to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday, calling on her department to release all documents related to the pardons of Dwight and Steven Hammond, who had been convicted in 2012 of setting fires on public lands they had leased after illegally killing deer on the land. The two men were sentenced to five years in prison with time served in 2015, sparking right-wing protests including a 40-day armed occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

There is no bottom to he corruption.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. And bribery gets in your blood. These two were probably just blips. nt

[Evolve Dammit]

9. We may never know how many

[PatSeg]

10. We'll probably never know

the full extent of all the corruption from the Trump administration. They'll be uncovering crap for many years to come.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Ah... Encyclopedia Britannica can make a comeback. One volume

Per crime type.

[PatSeg]

13. Seriously

As Trump might say, "The most corrupt administration the world has ever seen". He really loves superlatives!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. Our new rep Katie Porter is on this.

But given the House is going to be a food fight, will she find a way to cut through the mess?

[FakeNoose]

3. They received their pardons in 2018, after a $10K donation to the super-PAC

I thought the story said they were pardoned in 2015, and Chump wasn't Potus yet.

[COL Mustard]

4. When would that stop him?

Seriously, he's probably pardoning people tonight, at least in his own mind.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

5. The article say the pardons were in 2018. And that the pair served prison time in 2015.

[Beetwasher.]

6. Get Him on One, but Keep Indicting Him on Everything

Jail, and continued, non-stop indictments for him and all his enablers.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. Just think if you had $250,000 you could buy a pardon for your pals and still get the environmental

requirements waived at your multimillion dollar development.

Ain't GOP government grand?

[UTUSN]

8. K&R

[lindysalsagal]

11. Asshat had no idea it was a felony to sell favors. Indict just for this.

I am so done waiting for justice dept to catch on.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Right! But I just remembering how Michael Cohen was talking about the subject of money for access

To Dipshit early on, before he was even sworn in. Guess he didn't know it was illegal then either.

[TigressDem]

15. Here is what the public record shows for the pardons

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-j-trump-2017-2021

Dwight Lincoln Hammond District of Oregon
3 months' imprisonment; 3 years' supervised release; amended to 60 months' imprisonment on October 7, 2015 (October 30, 2012) Use of fire to damage and destroy property of the United States
(clemency record link) https://www.justice.gov/pardon/page/file/1079376/download

Steven Dwight Hammond District of Oregon
12 months' and one day's imprisonment; 3 years' supervised release; amended to 60 months' imprisonment on October 7, 2015 (October 30, 2012)
Use of fire to damage and destroy property of the United States (two counts)
(clemency record link) https://www.justice.gov/pardon/page/file/1079371/download