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

[iluvatar5150]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5319140-trump-pardons-scott-jenkins/

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:

https://wapo.st/4jwvfi8

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?

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

Criminal pardons criminal... and the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'

 

[Fantine]

'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.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Pardon the Swamp!

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Trump to pardon reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted on fraud charges

A jury in 2022 found the Chrisleys guilty of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans

www.localmemphis.com

 

[essentialsaltes]

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.