Trump To Pardon Dinesh D'Souza

[demmiblue]

Source: TPM

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will pardon Dinesh D’Souza, a right-wing commentator, author and filmmaker was was convicted in 2014 of using a “straw donor” to make an illegal campaign contribution.

Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D’Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2018

Link to tweet

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-pardon-dinesh-dsouza

[Initech]

1. Are you fucking kidding me?????

God damn him!!!

[Botany]

2. Good God in Butter the man is an idiot

Today, I will be giving a full pardon to Dinesh D'Souza because he
was treated unfairly by the government.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. D'Souza has to admit guilt to get the pardon

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/08/26/is-accepting-a-pardon-an-admission-of-guilt/

[bitterross]

15. That's in normal times. Arpaio hasn't yet.

In a normal world with a real President that would be the case. These days - not so much.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Merely accepting the pardon admits guilt. . . . nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. He'd already pleaded guilty

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/20/dinesh-dsouza-pleads-guilty-to-campaign-finance-fraud/

This is only good news for D'Souza. And Trump shows he doesn't care about election fraud as long as it's done by someone sucking up to him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Those are all good points. . . . nt

[unblock]

25. No, he doesn't, and your link doesn't agree with your claim.

A lot of people are thrown by the dicta in the Burdick decision. It was a non-essential statement made in a specific case of the government trying to force a pardon on an unwilling recipient in order to compel testimony (by eliminating 5th amendment protections).

It clearly doesn't apply where the pardon is granted on the grounds that the law was wrong or the jury was wrong. If someone is wrongly imprisoned and later exonerated with dna evidence, why on earth should they have to admit guilt in order to get out of prison?

[SummerSnow]

20. Trump hates the govt

[Iliyah]

3. Squirrel

squirrel . . . . .

[demmiblue]

5. Or a message. n/t

[mountain grammy]

4. I'm sure, if he could, he would dig up

every monster in history and pardon them..

[Archae]

6. This is the Onion, er...is it?

It's not?

Let's see now, D'Souza is a liar, philanderer, demagogue, no wonder Trump likes him.

[Botany]

9. Sadly this not from the Onion and neither was this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210675760

[still_one]

7. No one should be surprised by this. He pardoned joe arpaio, an avid racist.

[Gothmog]

8. From Prof. Tribe

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

10. No evidence of selective prosecution

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

11. WaPo article

Trump offers pardon to conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza for campaign finance violations

by John Wagner May 31 at 9:38 AM

President Trump announced Thursday that he would offer a full pardon to conservative author and documentary filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to violating federal campaign finance laws.

D’Souza was indicted on charges that he illegally used straw donors to contribute to a Republican Senate candidate in New York in 2012. He was sentenced to five years of probation, including eight months living under supervision in a “community confinement center” in San Diego, and a $30,000 fine.

Prosecutors said he had other individuals donate money to Republican Wendy Long, a Republican challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in 2012, under the agreement that he would reimburse them for the donations.

Last year, D’Souza claimed he was targeted by the Obama administration for “political” reasons. “Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D’Souza today,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “He was treated very unfairly by our government!”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-offers-pardon-to-conservative-pundit-dinesh-dsouza-for-campaign-finance-violations/2018/05/31/b4939a08-64d5-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html

[Alethia Merritt]

13. Is or was there a state law Dinesh broke? If so, I hope they prosecute.

[seltzerwater]

14. Douche Dsouza .

That is all

[benld74]

17. D'Souza

knowingly with malice and forethought committed a crime.
He was tried in a US court of law.
HE WAS CONVICTED
Where is the unfair part?

[demmiblue]

18. Dinesh D'Souza Flashback:

The firebrand’s latest offense against general human decency came Tuesday afternoon when he responded to a photograph of Florida school-shooting survivors crying after the state’s legislature voted down an assault-weapons ban.

“Worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs,” he mocked the kids who’d watched 17 people get murdered inside Stoneman Douglas High School just a few days prior—all because he disagreed with their political beliefs.

“Adults 1, kids 0,” he added.

Over the past year, D’Souza has: suggested the Charlottesville white-supremacist rally (which led to the murder of an anti-racism protester) was a “staged event” designed to make the right look bad; shared a meme calling former President Barack Obama a “gay Muslim” and suggesting Michelle Obama is a man; started a conspiracy theory that the media covered up Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock’s background as an anti-Trump activist (he wasn’t); used a photo of a grieving military widow—despite her protests—to attack football players kneeling during the national anthem; and defended Adolf Hitler, who sent thousands of gay people to death camps, as being “NOT anti-gay.”

In early 2017, D’Souza called civil-rights icon Rosa Parks an “OVERRATED DEMOCRAT” whose historic 1955 protest against segregated buses is “absurdly inflated” by the left. National Review’s top digital editor Charles C.W. Cooke fired back: “Not only is this is incorrect, it's an attitude that would never be struck about a soldier on, say, Veterans Day.” He added: “[E]ven if Parks was a minor player (she wasn't), she'd still deserve to be lionized.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dinesh-dsouza-national-review-parkland-shooting-survivors-racist-bigot?via=twitter_page


There's more.

[weissmam]

19. just remeber that to accept a pardon you are admitting guilt

so go right ahead , he already severed his term , all this does is confirm that he is a crook

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. He had already pleaded guilty - see #21

Depending on the state, this might allow him to vote again.

[moreland01]

24. Well of course!

Now he can make him head of the Federal Elections Commission! :-

[badhair77]

26. I don't know which is worse

my head exploding or my heart breaking for our country. A very depressing day.

[MariaCSR]

27. This was one of my greatest fears

that he would abuse pardon power. He's just getting started, too...

[durablend]

28. Wait until he pardons himself! n/t

[heaven05]

29. transparent move

d'Souza IS a RW asshole. Aparthate(apartheid) move, while thousands of AA, male and female, in prison only because they have black skin will not be pardoned by this potus asshole.

[demmiblue]

30. "I'm told Sen. Ted Cruz was one of several people who personally asked Trump to consider doing so."

Link to tweet

[demmiblue]

31. And he goes after Preet Bharara:

Link to tweet

Asshole.

[ButSeeYa]

32. Thank God Charles Manson is dead...

or else he would have received a pardon from Trump as well.

[demmiblue]

33. Found another disgusting tweet:

Link to tweet

POS.