Wednesday, June 18, 2025

President Trump's Pardons Cost Taxpayers and Victims $1.3bn

Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD): "Our new analysis reveals that when President Trump issued a mass blanket pardon to 1,500 January 6 felons and dozens of mostly white-collar criminals, he wiped out $1.3 billion in restitution payments and fines they owed directly to their victims and to American taxpayers. While prior presidents overwhelmingly reserved pardons for those who accepted responsibility for their crimes, made full restitution to their victims and paid all their legal fines, Trump uses pardons not only to shorten the sentences of his political friends but to wipe out the debt they owe to their victims and to our society. The Trump presidency is overseeing a massive transfer of wealth not only from the poor to the rich but from the innocent to the guilty. This is a golden age for politically connected criminal felons."

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nice job you fat ----

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-18 12:51 PM

But, they're part of his criminal cabal so it's all good.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-18 12:57 PM

That's $1.3 Billion that Trump will expect they now donate to him.

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-06-18 01:12 PM

Stinky says this is better than stealing from children's cancer charities;

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-18 01:50 PM

Just wait until Diddy is pardoned because he was treated so unfairly ...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2025-06-18 09:25 PM

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