Trump to pardon D’Souza

A good précis of D’Souza’s crime may be found here:

On January 24, 2014, D’Souza was arraigned in a Manhattan federal court on charges of making $20,000 in illegal campaign contributions to the New York Senate campaign of Wendy Long, and for causing false statements to be made to the Federal Election Commission.

In May 2014, D’Souza pleaded guilty to one felony count of making illegal contributions in the names of others. In September 2014, the court sentenced D’Souza to five years probation, eight months in a halfway house (referred to as a “community confinement center”) and a $30,000 fine.

The account goes on to say that Alan Dershowitz believes D’Souza was treated unfairly. Until recently — he has become an ardent Trump defender — I’ve thought well of Dershowitz, so take that for what it’s worth.

D’Souza undoubtedly issued the tweet below in response to Parkland students’ reaction to the Florida legislature’s refusal to take-up gun control following the mass-shooting in their school and, so far as I’m concerned, it ought to put him on the outskirts of decent society forever.

Trump’s intentions here, surely, are to …

• Remind everybody that he considers himself aggrieved by the investigation into his campaign’s now-documented cooperation with Russia, and ..

• To remind the sleazy characters around him that he has the power of the pardon.

There is no immediate remedy but to unseat every Republican next November.