GOPer Sasse on POTUS pardons: "This is rotten to the core"

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) blasted President Trump Wednesday evening over the latest pardons POTUS provided for political allies Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. The senator said the pardons are "rotten to the core," and while he's the first GOP member to come down on Trump over a president's constitutional right to pardon, he will likely not be the last.

In Sasse's statement he specifically mentioned both men, saying that "felons like Manafort and Stone" . . . "had flagrantly and repeatedly violated the law and harmed Americans."

Trump also pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The elder Kushner pleaded guilty in 2004 of 16 counts of tax evasion and retaliating against a witness. He served two years in the slammer. The whereabouts of the witness is unknown.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris "I Ate the Whole Thing" Cristy, was the prosecutor in the case of Charles Kushner. Cristy said his crimes were among the most “loathsome” he had dealt with.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the loathsome Democratic prosecutor during Trump’s impeachment trial, called Manafort’s pardon particularly outrageous and blamed Russia for influencing Trump's decision and for clogging up Schiff's toilet.

Interestingly, neither Schiff nor Sasse nor any Democratic congressperson had said anything negative about the myriad pardons of drug dealers and worse regarding the huge number of pardons by former President Obama. 

Apparently selling cocaine to kids, embezzlement, conspiracy to launder money, identity theft, conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, knowingly buying a firearm for a felon, distribution of heroin, armed bank robbery, destruction of mail matter by a postal employee [not mail-in votes this time], manslaughter, conspiracy to distribute phenylacetic acid, "devising a scheme to defraud the United States of money and property and devising a scheme to deprive the United States Bankruptcy Court and the citizens of the United States of honest services," and Bradley Manning's 35 year sentence for providing top classified military information to Wikileaks being commuted isn't as grievous as Manafort's and Stone's political hit jobs by the Left.

.Manning even tried a run for a congressional seat but thankfully lost, which disappointed Democrats and RINOs alike.

Not to mention the sentences, mostly drug and weapons-related commuted by Obama.

But it's only when Trump does it that it is "rotten to the core."

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