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President Trump Will Fully Pardon Dinesh D'Souza

Saladin4 said:
This asshole D'Souza is finished as film maker ....Thankfully
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No actually he was just on twitter saying he has a new documentary coming out just before the mid-terms.
 
vadinho said:
at some point future congresses will have to modify the pardon power through an amendment. This is so blatantly partisan that it makes the pardon power seem an act of corruption.
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qft.

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faithful_servant said:
His conviction was legit, his sentence was not.
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Then Trump has the ability to do a commutation of the sentence. Instead he is doing a full pardon which is saying it is alright to commit crimes as long as you are loyal to Trump. Thank you for showing your support for utter lawlessness as long as you are a Trump supporter.
 
celticwar17 said:
It wasn't that he did not do the crime... but the punishment he got was significantly more than anyone had ever got for the same charge. No one in history had gone to to jail for doing what he did at the amount he did.

the equivalent of getting jailtime for a seat-belt violation and no prior history.

Liberal or Conservative.... it was wrong.
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1. It wasn't the equivalent of jail time for a seatbelt violation. That's just wild exaggeration.

2. The punishment seems to be too harsh for the crime. I would have argued for a small fine and a long probation period or something like that. Definitely not 8 months and a 30k fine and 5 years of community service/probation. That's overboard. But...

3. The idiot was asking for it. If you are caught red handed, the typical way you treat it is the path of least resistance. You admit guilt, be sincere in acknowledging what you did was wrong, let the judge understand that you are fully aware of what you did and how wrong it was. What he did was go all over the place and scream about how was being persecuted for his beliefs and had done nothing wrong even after admitting guilt in court but before sentencing. Like it or not but your actions during your trial go in to the judges decision on if you have learned your lesson and if you are truly accepting responsibility and understand what you did wrong. Anyone that acted the way he did would get a harsher than typical punishment for obvious reasons. I still think the punishment was too harsh, but at the same time he was practically begging for it. This is akin to a guy with a tail light out driving by a cop and flipping him off and calling him a pig. Of course the cop is going to write him a ticket even though normally he only gives warnings for people to fix the tail light. It doesn't make it right, but you understand why it happened.
 
vesper said:
Have they arrested Rosie ODonnell yet?

Rosie O'Donnell's donations to Dems exceeded limit: report | Fox News
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If they could prove that she did so knowingly then they probably would. But what she did was different. She donated too much through a system that didn't tell her there were limits. D'souza sought out straw donors to funnel money through in an effort to hide to action. One seems to be a mistake, one is out and out illegal activity with full knowledge. It's apples and oranges.
 
AP news: Trump says he's considering commuting sentence of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, pardoning Martha Stewart.

Along with Dinesh, the pattern of crimes all point to a message to Cohen: Don't talk; I've got you covered.
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
I love how crimes are more serious to you, but when Roseanne says racist things she should just keep her job like nothing happened b/c freedom of speech.
Sorry I'm not digging up everything for you to please your twisted sense of righteousness that you'll just turn around to fit your narrative instead of saying how bad these positions are to hold.

It's not just crazy positions to hold. this is who D'sousa is. He is a racist conspiracy theorist who has not stopped believing the hateful things that come out of his mouth. I dare you to find one Democrat who is not a comedian who said anything close to any of this stuff.
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I'll stand by my post. I understand how demonizing D'Souza to justify whatever happens to him is how the left justifies the injustices they do, but it still doesn't make it right any more than it makes it okay for those on the right to do that. And whattaboutisms and 'you did it too' is about as weak an argument as it gets.
 
AlbqOwl said:
I'll stand by my post. I understand how demonizing D'Souza to justify whatever happens to him is how the left justifies the injustices they do, but it still doesn't make it right any more than it makes it okay for those on the right to do that. And whattaboutisms and 'you did it too' is about as weak an argument as it gets.
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You are the only one that is claiming the "you did it too," whataboutism. I am talking about the facts. what D'Souza has tweeted and what he believes. There is no whataboutism to be made. It is wrong, period.
 
AlbqOwl said:
I'll stand by my post. I understand how demonizing D'Souza to justify whatever happens to him is how the left justifies the injustices they do, but it still doesn't make it right any more than it makes it okay for those on the right to do that. And whattaboutisms and 'you did it too' is about as weak an argument as it gets.
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Was D'Souza demonizing himself when he admitted to knowingly committing a crime?
 
Saladin4 said:
Doesn't matter...This idiot D'Souza put out propaganda films against Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama...So he is hero to these Right Wing assholes...No matter what crimes he committed
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Now it makes perfect sense why Trump did it.
 
Cardinal said:
Was D'Souza demonizing himself when he admittedly to knowingly committing a crime?
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He admitted to a crime just as many do when threatened with being convicted of something more serious they know they didn't do, but would ruin themselves financially and professionally in the process of defending themselves. In this case he did commit a crime and he did admit it. But that isn't the issue is it.

The issue is targeting him, considered Obama's and the Democrats' and the leftists' nemisis, for a crime that almost nobody else is prosecuted or sent to jail for. Again the comparison is pulling over the black motorist for a violation he committed while giving white motorists a pass for the same offense. Injustice is injustice even when it is Dinesh 'Souza.
 
AlbqOwl said:
He admitted to a crime just as many do when threatened with being convicted of something more serious they know they didn't do, but would ruin themselves financially and professionally in the process of defending themselves. In this case he did commit a crime and he did admit it. But that isn't the issue is it.

The issue is targeting him, considered Obama's and the Democrats' and the leftists' nemisis, for a crime that almost nobody else is prosecuted or sent to jail for. Again the comparison is pulling over the black motorist for a violation he committed while giving white motorists a pass for the same offense. Injustice is injustice even when it is Dinesh 'Souza.
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Obama and the Democrats didn't order him to commit campaign fraud. That was Dinesh's choice, and he didn't have to serve a day in jail for it.
 
Vadinho said:
At some point future Congresses will have to modify the pardon power through an amendment. This is so blatantly partisan that it makes the pardon power seem an act of corruption.
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He is going to pardon martha stewart and hot rod next. These two are democrats. How is that partisan???
 
AlbqOwl said:
It is unjust because nobody else is prosecuted in that way for the same crime. You no doubt deliberately omitted the rest of my post that explained and illustrated that.

So that made his conviction and sentence 'selective prosecution' based on his politics instead of being based on his crime. If everybody who commits the same crime was charged, convicted, and sentenced, then nobody at all would have had any quibble with the wrath of the government coming down on d'Souza. The ONLY reason d'Souza was targeted was because he is a high profile conservative very outspoken against President Obama and his administration.

That makes it as wrong as the police targeting black people for extra scrutiny and/or arrest while giving most or all white people a pass.
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Is this another post about the persecution of right wingers? Are you arguing for yet another deep state infiltrator putting poor Dinesh on the spot for a crime he admitted but was done without his knowledge of the law? It seems as if conservatives are finding ever new ways to paint themselves as victims of a vast left wing conspiracy on all fronts.
 
celticwar17 said:
It wasn't that he did not do the crime... but the punishment he got was significantly more than anyone had ever got for the same charge. No one in history had gone to to jail for doing what he did at the amount he did.

the equivalent of getting jailtime for a seat-belt violation and no prior history.

Liberal or Conservative.... it was wrong.
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5 years probation, no jail time?
 
AlbqOwl said:
A valid analogy is a valid analogy. I used a valid analogy.
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Um, it wasn't race based, so no, yer analogy is by definition, invalid.

Further, it is invalid to argue that because others violate a law, Dish should not have been prosecuted. It is total hypocrisy if you feel others should have been prosecuted too. It is a complete logical failure, but you do produce a lot of that.
 
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NeverTrumpGOP said:
The past year, Dinesh D’Souza has:
  • Suggested the Charlottesville rally was staged
  • Shared a meme calling Obama a “gay Muslim”
  • Suggested Michelle Obama is a man
  • Started a conspiracy theory about the Vegas shooting
  • Defended Adolf Hitler as "NOT anti-gay"

Welcome to the new Republican Party. These may not be spoken beliefs, but if you are a moderate like me who questions these very stupid positions to hold. You will not have a place in the party and deemed "libural" for life.
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And to think that just back in 1995 when he wrote THE END OF RACISM he was considered an honest intellectual conservative speaking some uncomfortable truths in an intelligent manner. WOW!!!!! But did he go off the deep end.
 
Bucky said:
He is going to pardon martha stewart and hot rod next. These two are democrats. How is that partisan???
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Technically, it would be a commutation of Rod's sentence and a pardon for Stewart as she already served her 5 months.

President Trump also just pardoned (posthumously) boxing great Jack Johnson. (105 years late.) I would have thought that this would have been low-hanging fruit for prior Presidents. smh
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