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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

A convicted drug dealer who had been granted clemency by Donald Trump was sent back to federal prison on Monday for violating the terms of his release after being charged with several new crimes.

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A convicted drug dealer granted clemency by President Donald Trump has been sent back to federal prison for violating the terms of his release after being charged with several new crimes.

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-- The Associated Press (@apnews.com) Nov 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM

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... Jonathan Braun was sentenced to 27 months behind bars.

The Long Island man had been accused of swinging an IV pole at a hospital nurse and threatening to kill her, screaming at a member of his synagogue, groping his family's nanny and evading bridge tolls.

Brooklyn federal judge Kiyo Matsumoto said she hoped Braun's "expressions of remorse" and promises to "lead a law-abiding life" were in good faith, noting that many of the people who he had harmed have since forgiven him.

"Don't squander it," she said to Braun.

Prosecutors had sought a five-year sentence, the maximum punishment allowed, arguing that a lengthy stint behind bars was "necessary to protect the public from further crimes.

"The defendant's brazen and violent conduct caused fear and terror in his victims," prosecutors wrote in a court filing ahead of his sentencing. Braun, they said, has continued to show that he is a "serious danger to the community". ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-10 03:24 PM | Reply

Pres Trump has been pardoning those, apparently, unrepentant people, some of which have been convicted of crimes.

Is there any surprise that the pardoned people might continue to resort to less than legal activity?

The GOP, the party of Law and order?

Hardly.

It now seems to have become the party of criminals.


Commit crime, and be pardoned.


That's what the GOP seems to have devolved into.



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-11 08:59 PM | Reply

Even Murdoch's rag is slamming the orange pedo for pardoning this degenerate.

nypost.com

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-11 09:23 PM | Reply


@#3 ... Even Murdoch's rag is slamming the orange pedo for pardoning this degenerate. ...

Whoa, from that link ...

... LI drug dealer freed by Trump now convicted of molesting his kids' nanny and threatening synagogue congregant ...

So, this is the type of person that Pres Trump pardons?



LI drug dealer freed by Trump now convicted of molesting his kids' nanny and threatening synagogue congregant

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-12 02:18 AM | Reply

The Pedo47 junta is nothing more than a collection of criminals giving favors to criminals.

Putin could not wish for better results in making the US into a laughing stock in a million years.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-12 07:19 AM | Reply

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