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Presidents have been pardoning criminals since George Washington. It’s a constitutional power. No explanation needed. The Department of Justice does screen applicants and typically only recommends those who remorsefully seek mercy. But that’s not always been the process.
President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. President Clinton Mark Rich after donations. President Biden, his son Hunter, and Anthony Fouchy. President Trump, he’s developed his own vetting system, pardoning political allies, including all of the January 6 riers, as well as a string of unrepentant financial conmen who argued, just like him, that they were wrongly prosecuted. How did these people get their grievances in the president’s ear?
Donations appear to help and those who can pay hire pardon brokers, lawyers and lobbyists who sell their ties to the president for exorbitant fees. It’s a marketplace of money and mercy. Ammon Cavino is seeking a pardon. Seated is his wife Crystal. And joining them at this Virginia hotel lounge are lobbyists Jacob Wool and Jack Burkeman who don’t know they’re being recorded as they pitch their services as pardon brokers.
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