The Democrats are getting ready to be in charge of Congress. They have already stated that if they get control of Congress in the mid-term elections, they will begin impeachment hearings against President Trump immediately. It really doesn’t matter if he has done anything worthy of impeachment–they just want to impeach him. The media is already getting ready to help.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, RealClearInvestigations<\/a> posted an article about the latest false accusation leveled against President Trump.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n In a segment titled \u201cThe Pardon Economy,\u201d veteran CBS reporter Lesley Stahl alleges that Trump has upended the way U.S. presidents have dispensed pardons for\u00a0\u201c100 years or more\u201d<\/a> by creating a \u201cnew system\u201d that involves lobbyists and high-priced \u201cpardon brokers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Stahl\u2019s report suggests that Trump has replaced the normal order \u2013 in which pardons typically go through an apolitical review by the Justice Department\u2019s Office of the Pardon Attorney\u2013 with a scheme that looks like \u201cpay-to-play.\u201d It has already led Democrats to vow they will investigate the issue if they retake the House in the November mid-term elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n To situate Trump in this \u201cpardon lobbyists\u201d narrative, Stahl links the White House to two convicted con artists who claim close ties to Trump without disclosing one critical detail: There is no evidence the two have ever succeeded in getting anyone a pardon. While their efforts suggest that some in Washington may be trying to capitalize on the narrative about Trump\u2019s alleged corruption \u2013 inspired, in part, by questionable pardons he has issued previously \u2013 \u201c60 Minutes\u201d offers no concrete proof connecting the administration to these money-making schemes.<\/strong><\/p>\n Stahl\u2019s report also ignored the long history of wrongdoers paying exorbitant fees for lobbyists to get their pardons viewed by the Oval Office \u2013 most famously Bill Clinton\u2019s brother, Roger, and Hillary\u2019s brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham.<\/strong><\/p>\n Although Stahl\u2019s report quotes Trump officials denying her claims, a DOJ official who was outraged by her \u201cmisleading\u201d report provided RealClearInvestigations with documents showing that well-connected D.C. insiders are routinely involved in the pardon process.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article explains that the charge involves two people who were offering to obtain pardons for people for $300,000. But the people who paid them the money never got the pardons. That doesn’t sound like President Trump is the one with some legal questions to answer.<\/p>\n I wonder if the people who paid for the pardons will get their money back since they didn’t get the pardons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Democrats are getting ready to be in charge of Congress. They have already stated that if they get control of Congress in the mid-term elections, they will begin impeachment hearings against President Trump immediately. It really doesn’t matter if … Continue reading