A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners
Even amid the uproar over President Donald J. Trump’s freewheeling use of his pardon powers at the end of his term, one commutation stood out.
Jonathan Braun of New York had served just two and a half years of a decade-long sentence for running a massive marijuana ring, when Mr. Trump, at 12:51 a.m. on his last day in office, announced he would be freed.
Mr. Braun was, to say the least, an unusual candidate for clemency.
A Staten Islander with a history of violent threats, Mr. Braun had told a rabbi who owed him money: “I am going to make you bleed.” Mr. Braun’s family had told confidants they were willing to spend millions of dollars to get him out of prison.
At the time, Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department and federal regulators, as well as New York state authorities, were still after him for his role in an entirely separate matter: his work as a predatory lender, making what judges later found were fraudulent and usurious loans to cash-strapped small businesses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/us/politics/trump-pardon-braun.html
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It was unimaginable that riffraff would steal into the Whitehouse. It would be like setting up to punish one of their own. That's just not the sort of governance they paid their hard-earned money for.
After all, what contortionist works harder to create the threat of inflation* than the investing class? It's so exhaustingly inconvenient. But then, add to that the energy required to maintain the pretense of amicability and tolerance for such as Trump and his dirty scions/minions. It is so difficult to maintain a society in this climate. All while those middle class and poor are no help at all.
* the wealthiest call it "harvest"
I like 
. It smells like......victory.