Spare Us the Outrage over Dinesh D’Souza’s Pardon

Spare Us the Outrage over Dinesh D’Souza’s Pardon

https://www.westernjournal.com/michelle-malkin-spare-us-the-outrage-over-dinesh-dsouzas-pardon/

Excerpt: President Donald Trump’s pardon of conservative author Dinesh D’Souza last week violently triggered Beltway media elites. It’s peanut butter, weed pollen, gluten, manspreading, Chick-fil-A, the national anthem and kryptonite all rolled into one giant political allergen. ... The “democratic values” that WaPo-lemicists claim are now under siege thanks to Trump’s pardons got crushed under the wheels of the corruptocrat bus a long, long time ago. Self-dealing President Bill Clinton handed out pardons and commutations like Pez Candy to relatives like half-brother Roger Clinton (convicted of cocaine possession) and family-tied associates like his brother-in-law Hugh Rodham’s clients, including convicted cocaine distributor Carlos Vignali and convicted herbal supplement fraudster and perjurer A. Glenn Braswell; the two felons had forked over $400,000 to Rodham in legal fees to win their clemencies. Hillary Clinton’s other brother, Tony, raked in more than $240,000 from a couple convicted of bank fraud, who he just happened to mention to his brother-in-law in the White House, who granted the pardon — after which brother Tony denied being paid for any work having to do with a pardon. Meanwhile, Madame HRC’s Senate campaign treasurer, William J. Cunningham III, pocketed $4,000 to prepare clemency for two Arkansas-based convicted tax cheats, Robert Fain and James Manning. Bill Clinton granted both; Hillary Clinton played dumb and feigned shock, shock that political favor-trading was going on in Clinton land. And don’t even get me started on the putrid Marc and Denise Rich pardon scandal, overseen by Clinton/Obama alum Eric Holder. (D'Souza gets slammed hard for a truly minor offense, to the point of not only prison time but months of psychoanalysis dictated by the judge, one one of the mostly clearly partisan prosecutions seen in decades. Trump corrects this with a pardon, and the screaming and moaning bounces off the moon. Malkin does a superb job demonstrating just how outrageous this is. --Del)