• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Trump Pardons Another Corrupt Official

iluvatar5150

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Aug 3, 2012
29,900
29,649
Baltimore
✟793,179.00
Country
United States
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Democrat

President Trump granted another pardon on Monday for a former official he claimed was the victim of a “weaponized” Justice Department (DOJ) during the Biden administration, granting clemency to former Sheriff Scott Jenkins.

Jenkins was indicted in June 2023 based on allegations that he accepted more than $70,000 in bribes in the form of cash or campaign contributions from more than a half dozen, including two undercover FBI agents.

Prosecutors alleged that Jenkins appointed these men as auxiliary deputy sheriffs, giving them badges and credentials despite them not being trained or vetted and not offering services to the sheriff’s office. They also accused him of pressuring local officials in the case of one man, a convicted felon, to restore his right to own a firearm.


Story from when he was originally convicted:

I suppose the thinking is that abuse works like a criminal conviction - it doesn't count if it's pardoned away. That's how that works, right?
 

Fantine

Dona Quixote
Site Supporter
Jun 11, 2005
41,675
16,774
Fort Smith
✟1,432,399.00
Country
United States
Gender
Female
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Democrat
'We'd better take that "auto-pen" away from Trump. Far too many criminals have been pardoned--from corrupt sheriffs to the the January 6th domestic terrorists.

Pretty soon he'll be getting fan mail from every death row inmate in the country, because all it will take is a little flattery.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: Sif
Upvote 0

Akita Suggagaki

Well-Known Member
Jul 20, 2018
10,327
7,395
70
Midwest
✟376,437.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
Upvote 0

essentialsaltes

Fact-Based Lifeform
Oct 17, 2011
43,223
46,336
Los Angeles Area
✟1,035,336.00
Country
United States
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Legal Union (Other)
The presidency is like having an endless pile of these.
And now that SCOTUS has made it so Trump no longer needs one himself, there's just one alternative.

1748388616321.png
 
Upvote 0