Now he is defending pardon by naming past Dem presidents

[BigmanPigman]

from the past 30 years going all the back to the Weathermen who pardoned people for various reasons. He knew he would get this question and had his list ready. They read the same list on Fux Ruse last Fri (I watched Fux out of curiousity).

[chelsea0011]

1. Were any of these people pardoned before the end of their trials or

did they all go to jail after their trials and were then pardoned?

[unblock]

2. afaik they only had sentences commuted.

not sure any of them are actual pardons.

[MichMan]

6. Not all of them

Marc Rich faced 65 criminal indictments and fled to Switzerland to avoid prosecution. At one time he was on the FBI 10 most wanted list

[Yupster]

8. He was the first one I thought of

He wasn't even sentenced. He ran away from the country before his trial was to begin.

He was to be tried for trading with Iran while it was holding the US hostages and as the largest tax evasion case in US history. He was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list for years and supposedly they almost got him in Finland one time, in the Caribbean, and in England. Each time he fled before they could spring their trap.

On Bill Clinton's last day in office, he reached across the Atlantic to grant Rich a pardon.

Before the pardon, Rich's wife donated $ 100,000 to Hillary's senate campaign, $ 1 million to the DNC and $ 450,000 to the Clinton Presidential library.

[spanone]

3. there is no bottom too low for this classless act.

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yes, he actually pulled a list out of his pocket and read off it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. Pardoning someone who has already spent time, sometimes decades, in prison

is entirely differently from someone who hasn't spent a day.

[MichMan]

7. Marc Rich fled to Switzerland and never even faced trial nm

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. And I didn't approve of his pardon n/t

[leftstreet]

5. So weak - whataboutism. At least he's on the defensive

loser