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June  Kahn's avatar

trump's corruption is unmatched by any previous president. He is beyond the level of any prior administration. He's breath-takingly evil and his sycophants are the most self serving group of politicians to hold their positions. Remember that next time any election rolls around, especially in 2026 and 2028. Get rid of the vermin in the White House!

Mari Wilson's avatar

This MUST get out there to the public. I know no one knows this.

Holy crap!

blackcatnamedOlivia's avatar

It's being discussed widely among Democratic-affiliated cognoscenti (i.e. Gil Duran in SF and Naked Capitalism in NY).

Karen Kernan's avatar

Why is this not on the front page of the NYTimes, Washington Post, and other media?!

@suzannecloud's avatar

Great research! Now we know why Hernandez was pardoned.

BTAM Master's avatar

Took the words out of my mouth.

Watch your backs folks!

Bob Schotman's avatar

How much money did he pay to Trump ...

Gunnar Jensen's avatar

It’s always the corruption that brings fascist regimes like Trumpzi’s crashing down on themselves — but only when the people know. Thanks for bringing these important details of this corrupt, bargain pardon to light! (Roger Stone … geez 🙄 — (Mister “Gee everybody, look at the tat of Dick Nixon on my back!”)

Sue's avatar

Roger Stone was Nixon's dirty tricks man.

Gunnar Jensen's avatar

(Roy Cohn is another through line, actually from Joe McCarthy, to Nixon to Trump …)

Brenda Feeney's avatar

Where is the outrage for what this administration doing? Why is Congress so complicit……oh yes, they’re afraid of Trump’s wrath. It will only get worse if they don’t start pushing back.

Colleen Howard-Tabron's avatar

Outrage is simmering ready to boil. I heard Schumer on Lawrence, last word today. He’s on low boil. Dems are aching to win the midterms and start the clean out

Richard Bedingfield's avatar

Perhaps he was the main supplier to the Trump family. In the UK he would have been given a royal warrant as Supplier of drugs to the Royal family. His smuggling boats, plains and vehicles would have carried the insignia "By Royal Appointment". A Trump pardon is the USA equivalent - miss Maxwell next?

Colleen Howard-Tabron's avatar

Didn’t they find cocaine in trumps WH?

M Stuart Itter's avatar

CORRECTION. NOT WHO NEGOTIATED THE PARDON. TRY; HOW MUCH WAOS "CNTRIBUTED" FOR THE PARDON.

Colleen Howard-Tabron's avatar

Great and Revealing article. Agree with others, trumps going to need a tax haven for his and his families billions. God forbid he should pay taxes on them.

Nancy's avatar

500 tons equals 4,535,000 grams. One gram of cocaine can kill.

Dan Elbert's avatar

The laws are only for the little people.

DiannaD's avatar

Transactional corruption …don’t forget the Epstein files!!!

Kenneth Furie's avatar

The more information we get about who's really being served by the Trump administration, the more hideously depressing it is, given those monsters' wealth, power, and reach. Nevertheless, we need as much information as we can gather. I just wish I had a better idea what we can do with the info. The power brokers of this nightmare administration have done an awful lot to make their reach nearly impossible to counteract, let alone reverse. Sigh!!!

Mary's avatar

So..., Trump pardons a CONVICTED drug trafficker who conspired to send 500 tons of cocaine to the U.S. (pandering to a billionaire sycophant) while ordering the killing of ALLEGED (no evidence whatsoever) "narco-terrorists," on small boats, who were hanging on for their lives.

If you don't see the absurd level of hypocrisy here, you are lost. Give it up and go hide in a cave somewhere.