#msg-1117250
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... and on and on and on, ad nauseam.
BUT WAIT ... methinks they doth protest too much! Yep ... they're rank hypocrites.
NY Times reporter who is amazed at how historically 'Norms have changed' due to Trump commuting sentences had quite a different impression 6 years ago
http://twitchy.com/brads-313037/2020/02/19/ny-times-reporter-who-is-amazed-at-how-historically-norms-have-changed-due-to-trump-commuting-sentences-had-quite-a-different-impression-6-years-ago/
Presidents issue pardons and commute sentences. It happens to be one of the perks of being CEO of America Inc. It also happens to be something every single President has done in the history of Presidents.
Just don't tell that to the folks over at The New York Times; they seem to think they are breaking some new current events item in the round of pardons President Trump recently issued. (Hey, maybe THIS can be the item that leads to impeachment, since the John Bolton book testimony the Times broke never led to ... well, anything ...)
Eric Lipton has all of the earth-shattering never-seen-before details for us.
Eric Lipton ~ A moment that live in history. And deserves to be remembered. President Trump is now both the executive and judicial branch. Rod Blagojevich; Michael Milken, Bernard Kerik and others.
Remember this day folks, its historical. Never saw things like this taking place. Nope, all new kind of stuff happening here!
Eric Lipton ~ There must be a combined decades worth of labor by DOJ prosecutors to build the evidence, file the charges and secure convictions in these cases, entire careers of civil servants defined by these cases that now have been commuted or wiped out.
Eric Lipton ~ A lot of surprising moments so far in the Trump era. This one to me is the perhaps the most awesome, in terms of defining how norms have changed in Washington.
"Norms have changed"! We have never seen anything like this! All new ground being broken here by President Trump!!! In order to even find the last President who engaged in an activity like this we have to go all the way back to the administration of ... of ... uh, well - the last guy who was in office.
In fact, as much as I do not particularly like to dump on a journalist having an inability to do basic research, it becomes somewhat needed when Mr. Lipton was not even able to come up with evidence of - his own coverage of Obama pardons.
Yea, turns out Eric did in fact see this kind of historical activity taking place in the not-so-distant past. Only back then he seemed to have a much more calmer reaction to the news.
Steph ~ You wrote about pardons quite differently in 2014.
Eric Lipton ~ Big Day for Executive Actions. From DOJ just now: PRESIDENT OBAMA GRANTS COMMUTATIONS AND PARDONS. Clemency to 20, 8 commutations, 12 pardons. Dec. 17, 2014
Mollie ~ Good example of how media treat presidential actions taken by Trump differently than they treat actions taken by his predecessor, a man they worship. That Trump derangement causes a dramatic loss of knowledge that pardons/commutations are an executive action is a bonus.
Not only that, but the 40 sentences addressed by Obama would amount to how much MORE years of DOJ labor just completely wiped out, Mr. Lipton? ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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