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Right, in the grand tradition of Bill Clinton pardoning Marc Rich in exchange for large donations. I'm not attempting to defend Trump's pardons but abuse of that power is clearly a persistent bipartisan problem.




One example from 25 years ago hardly demonstrates a "persistent bipartisan" pattern.

Also that pardon was widely condemned by prominent Democrat party officials.

Left vs. right is the wrong way to think of this.

It’s corruption vs. integrity and justice.

Let’s be on the side of integrity and object to pay-to-play and political pardons, regardless of the party of the administration.

There’s nothing left to be done about Clinton’s pardon, but Trump is president now.

Let’s make him pay a political cost for his corruption.




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