Pardongate: Kanye's candidacy a quid pro quo?

[Marcuse]

FRI AUG 28, 2020 / 2:45 PM EDT
- President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Friday to Alice Marie Johnson, a Tennessee woman who received a life sentence for a first-time drug offense and whose cause was taken up by the celebrity Kim Kardashian West.[link:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-johnson-pardon-idUSKBN25O2PE|

NOV 4, 2020 10:00AM PST
After a night of ballot counting, Kanye West passed 60,000 votes in the race for the presidency of the United States. West was on the ballot in 12 states. His exact count, as of 10:30 a.m. PT Wednesday, was 60,761.

Most of the states in question were above 90% counted, with the notable exceptions of Colorado, Utah, Mississippi and Vermont. Those were all above 70% counted.

Kanye’s updated state-by-state breakdown is as follows, according to the AP:

Arkansas: 4,040
Colorado: 6,254
Idaho: 3,631
Iowa: 3,202
Kentucky: 6,259
Louisiana: 4,894
Minnesota: 7,789
Mississippi: 3,277
Oklahoma: 5,590
Tennessee: 10,216
Utah: 4,344
Vermont: 1,265



[link:https://deadline.com/2020/11/kanye-west-gets-60000-votes-across-12-states-in-u-s-presidential-race-1234608903/|

[Ponietz]

1. "Offense" is inaccurate

From DOJ:

Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine;
attempted possession of 12 kilos of cocaine with intent to distribute;
attempted possession of 9 kilos of cocaine;
attempted possession of 75 kilos of cocaine;
attempted possession of 10 kilos of cocaine;
conspiracy to commit money laundering;
money laundering ($1.5 million);
structuring monetary transactions

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