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You’re never going to convince me that my position on law and order and crime and punishment is inaccurate in this case. He abused his public office for personal gain. He abused the trust of the people for his own benefit. He tried to extort a Children’s Hospital for campaign donations. He is vile!

I know that abusing ones office for personal gain is suddenly en-vogue for the GOP under Trump, but it will never be for me.

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None of which justifies making him serve time for crimes that were thrown out on appeal. You are very much mistaken if you think I like or condone Blago’s actions.

Don’t call yourself a supporter of law and order while advocating people serve time for crimes for which they have not been convicted. It’s an indefensible position.

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You know I remember how you felt about this when he got sentenced and it was something you thought you could hang on Obama because he was a Democrat from Illinois right?

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You dudes are hilarious. Nothing you ever believed can’t be instantly discarded to defend Trump, who you totally don’t support.

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You know that is irrelevant right? I still don’t approve of his crimes. That doesn’t mean he should serve time for crimes thrown out on appeal.

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But hey, never thought I would be accused of blind partisan ship for supporting a Republican President reducing a Democratic governors sentence. That’s a twist.

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It’s not irrelevant, it is both relevant and extremely funny how flexible your beliefs are if Donald Trump tells you they are, and you don’t serve time for crimes thrown out on appeal.

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Blago was. His sentence was not reduced when they were thrown out.

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And if I blindly support everything, why am I not on board with pardoning Milken?

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If the conviction was thrown out so is the sentence. That is how the law works. You are making this up, or more accurately repeating something someone else made up to justify their about face on this issue.

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By all means show us the reduction he received when they were thrown out. I have already posted a link saying they weren’t. And there is no about face, I was never for having him serve time for crimes that were thrown out on appeal.

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I am coming up with zero. Fled to Switzerland and then got his pardon.

Could have had up to 300 years. Notably defied the Iranian oil embargo while they held hostages.

:dove:

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Yes. Ill see if he starts singing Blago’s praises. It will be epic.

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Supporting a pardoning of a criminal with a D to his name earns brownie points?

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I never thought i would hear any trumpist make up a deep state narrative to defend this guy. Holy ■■■■■

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At least I am straightforward on my belief. When he was sentenced I thought it was too harsh…I even started a thread on it when counts were thrown out and his sentence was not reduced one week. That was wrong. You were convicted on X accounts…they threw out Y counts on appeal, and the sentence is not reduced…How is that for law an order?

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Who is defending him?

It is interesting that the guy on the wire tap with him is now Governor of Illinois.

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Trumpists? Are your so-called Trumpists somehow inferior to the Trump haters? If so how? Did any of the Trump haters come out in favor of the prison reform that released Alice Johnson from her life sentence? Few if any. They would have rather see her rot in prison than acknowledge the President did anything right. The Trump haters occupy no high ground. The have no moral authority to judge anyone. They are certainly not superior to your “Trumpists.”

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Blago does not appear to have lost his gift of gab in the pen.

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I wouldn’t argue against this. I do think the timing is intended to give the finger to the Left, and to cushion the blowback from the inevitable Stone pardon.

What an insufferable ■■■■■.