PARDONS, SELECTIVE PROSECUTION, PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT, AND TRUMP’S POLITICAL ENEMIES LIST
A RARE NON-CONTROVERSIAL PARDON BY TRUMP
Donald Trump promised that, if elected, he would end the war in Ukraine, lower prices, and get a decent haircut on the first day of his 2nd term. Nine months in he has done none of those things. He did, however, keep one promise. He pardoned ALL 1500+ January 6th insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol that day, beat and pepper-sprayed cops, terrified our elected senators and representatives, desecrated the hallowed halls of democracy, and threatened to “Hang Mike Pence”, our VP at the time. Amazingly, he was too lazy to review each felon on a case-by-case basis, and just released them all. The fact that Trump incited the attack probably had something to do with that totally un-American decision. Several of these traitors have already been arrested again for crimes committed after their pardons, including most recently a man caught planning to assassinate House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries. How can anyone support a President who incites a riot against our nation’s capitol, then pardons everyone convicted of this heinous crime. Let’s not forget, those same morons also support a 34X convicted felon and a self-proclaimed sexual predator who arranged to have a convicted sex trafficker and abuser of children transferred to a minimum security prison camp, colloquially referred to as “Club Fed”, a move totally against Bureau of Prisons guidelines for a violent sex-offender.
The latest example of Trump’s overt corruption is his unconditional pardon of Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. U.S. authorities said in 2023 that Binance had failed to report suspicious transactions with organizations including Hamas and al Qaeda and with websites dedicated to selling child sexual abuse materials. He pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge. The pardon of Zhao, also known as "CZ" comes as he made recent moves to boost World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency company owned by Trump's sons, Eric and Donald Jr., resulting in a 5 BILLION dollar windfall for the Trump family. When asked about the pardon, Trump said, “a lot of people say he wasn't guilty of anything (he pleaded guilty). I don't know him, I don't believe I've ever met him, but I've been told”. That sounds to me like he’s either lying or someone is pulling his strings. Personally, I think he’s lying.
Trump’s latest flagrant abuse of power involves directing the Department of Justice to indict his political enemies even though DOJ prosecutors themselves say there is not enough evidence to indict. Some of those prosecutors have quit their jobs at the DOJ rather than violate their ethical standards to obey this dictator wannabe. Some of the “enemies” Trump wants prosecuted in spite of a dearth of evidence against them are former FBI Director James Comey, New York State Attorney General Letitia James, and former National Security Advisor John Bolton. The federal prosecutor who quit the Trump case in September 2025 is Erik Siebert, the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. He resigned after President Trump pressured him to charge political adversaries, specifically New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey. Siebert confirmed his resignation in an email to colleagues, stating he had informed Justice Department officials that there was insufficient evidence to charge Letitia James and had also raised concerns about a potential case against James Comey. President Trump's call for his ouster immediately preceded the resignation. In the weeks following Siebert's resignation, other prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia were removed or resigned. Maggie Cleary was removed from the office after siding with career prosecutors who opposed bringing the Comey case. Michael Ben'Ary and Maya Song were fired shortly afterwards for agreeing with Siebert and Cleary. Next on Trump’s revenge docket is trying to get Adam Schiff, indicted by a federal grand jury despite the fact that career prosecutors at the DOJ say there is no evidence to support a successful prosecution. Do you see a pattern here?
Contrast this to the case of Tom Homan, Trump’s Border Czar and good friend. Homan was caught red handed, on tape, accepting a $50,000 bribe in a paper bag from undercover FBI agents during a sting operation. Now THAT’S irrefutable evidence, right? Easy prosecution, right? … WRONG!!!! The Homan case was inexplicitly dropped by the DOJ and never investigated further. It’s good to be a friend of the king.
Now, you may be thinking, “How could our US Attorney, General Pam Bondi, allow this to happen? Well, I’m glad you asked. Pam Bondi has been a die-hard Trump loyalist since his first presidential race in 2016 when she endorsed him in the Republican primary over the candidate from her own state, Senator Marco Rubio. She served on Trump’s legal team during his first impeachment trial, has been a proponent of the Big Lie (2020 election was stolen), and has wrongly criticized the legitimate criminal cases brought against Donald Trump as “weaponizing the justice system”, a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black (or the blonde calling the kettle orange).