.MaddowBlog: Abandoning anti-corruption posture, Trump goes on pardoning spree
But there's no need to stop with the man known as"Blago." Several of those on today's list -- Bernie Kerik, David Safavian, Michael Milken, Judith Negron, et al. -- were convicted of charges related to corruption and fraud.
And Trump, after years of posturing about being"tough on crime," was only too pleased to intervene in their cases and help wipe the slate clean.in 2018, explaining the president's perspective. "If all that matters when it comes to 'law and order' is who is a friend and who is an enemy, and if friends are white and enemies are black or Latino or in the wrong party, then the rhetoric around crime and punishment stops being about justice and is merely about power and corruption. And this is what 'law and order' means: the preservation of a certain social order, not the rule of law.
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