Opinion: Trump's pardons demonstrate his belief that white-collar crime isn't real crime
Presidents have an unlimited supply of Get Out of Jail Free cards. Donald Trump handed out a bunch of them Tuesday, pardoning or commuting the sentences of a slew of big name felons.
There was Rod Blagojevich, an ex-governor of Illinois (and proud alum of Celebrity Apprentice) who solicited bribes to fill political offices, most notoriously the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama after he was elected to the presidency in 2008.
Trump also pardoned Bernard Kerik, the former New York police commissioner, who pleaded guilty in 2009 to eight federal crimes, including tax fraud. He also pleaded guilty to accepting tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from a New Jersey firm accused of having mob connections, and intriguingly, he was also a close pal and former business partner of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
There are others, but to me, the biggest bum of the lot is Michael Milken. The disgraced junk bond king was one of the sleazier faces in a series of financial scandals that rocked Wall Street back in the 1980s.
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