{"id":8086,"date":"2018-05-31T10:52:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2018-05-31T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:52:36","slug":"trump-to-pardon-dsouza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8086","title":{"rendered":"Trump to pardon D&#8217;Souza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D\u2019Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1002177521599860736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A good pr\u00e9cis of D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s crime may be found <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinesh_D%27Souza#Election_campaign_finance_conviction\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On January 24, 2014, D&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2014, D&#8217;Souza pleaded guilty to one felony count of making illegal contributions in the names of others. In September 2014, the court sentenced D&#8217;Souza to five years probation, eight months in a halfway house (referred to as a &#8220;community confinement center&#8221;) and a $30,000 fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The account goes on to say that Alan Dershowitz believes D&#8217;Souza was treated unfairly.  Until recently &#8212; he has become an ardent Trump defender &#8212; I&#8217;ve thought well of Dershowitz, so take that for what it&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;Souza undoubtedly issued the tweet below in response to Parkland students&#8217; reaction to the Florida legislature&#8217;s refusal to take-up gun control following the mass-shooting in their school and, so far as I&#8217;m concerned, it ought to put him on the outskirts of decent society forever.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vg3mXYvb4c\">https:\/\/t.co\/Vg3mXYvb4c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dinesh D&#39;Souza (@DineshDSouza) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DineshDSouza\/status\/966078572321562625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s intentions here, surely, are to &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Remind everybody that he considers himself aggrieved by the investigation into his campaign&#8217;s now-documented cooperation with Russia, and ..<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>To remind the sleazy characters around him that he has the power of the pardon.<\/ul>\n<p>There is no immediate remedy but to unseat every Republican next November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D\u2019Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government! &mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2018 A good pr\u00e9cis of D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s crime may be found here: On January 24, 2014, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8086\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8086"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8090,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions\/8090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}