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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MafiaDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaDon</span></a> plans to release the name of everyone he fires for investigating the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a>.</p><p>That means 1,500+ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pardoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pardoned</span></a> Capitol <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/terrorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terrorists</span></a> will have the names of anyone who attempted to prosecute them. 🤬</p>
PrivacyDigest<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ProudBoys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProudBoys</span></a> Leaders to Walk Free After <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Releases All <a href="https://mas.to/tags/January6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>January6</span></a> Rioters <br> <br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/EnriqueTarrio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnriqueTarrio</span></a>, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys, was among nearly 1,600 <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a> defendants who were either <a href="https://mas.to/tags/pardoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pardoned</span></a> or had their sentences commuted. He is expected to be in Miami by Tuesday afternoon.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/farright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farright</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/trump-pardons-proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-january-6/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/trump-pardons-</span><span class="invisible">proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-january-6/</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p>LORD ALMIGHTY.</p><p>In his post-inauguration speech, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LyinDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LyinDon</span></a> claimed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PARDONED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PARDONED</span></a> 33 Death Row inmates "for whatever reason" (and went on to claim they will be released.)</p><p>NO LYING DUMB-ASS, he only COMMUTED them to "life w/o parole."</p><p>He also claimed again "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pelosi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pelosi</span></a> refused 36,000 solders on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a>."</p><p>Those 30,000 lies he told in his first term are going to be DWARFED in his second term. 🤦‍♂️</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pardoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pardoned</span></a> 5 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicServants</span></a> on Sunday, including a posthumous grant of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/clemency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clemency</span></a> to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> leader <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarcusGarvey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcusGarvey</span></a>, who mobilized the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> nationalist movement &amp; was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.</p><p>Garvey’s posthumous pardon is among the most high profile in the latest round. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> leaders &amp; lawmakers have long called his criminal conviction unjust &amp; argued that he was targeted for his civil rights leadership.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/us/politics/biden-pardons-marcus-garvey.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/01/19/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/biden-pardons-marcus-garvey.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
libramoon<p><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-26-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heathercoxrichardson.substack.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/june-26-2024</span></a></p><p>June 26, 2024<br>HEATHER COX RICHARDSON<br>JUN 27, 2024</p><p>..."Today President Joe <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pardoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pardoned</span></a> more than 2000 former <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> personnel who had been convicted of engaging in consensual sex under a gay sex ban in the military that has since been repealed. People covered under the pardon can apply to have their military discharges corrected and to recover the pay and benefits the convictions cost them. “[M]aintain.”...</p>
Nonilex<p>Attempts to exert undue <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>influence</span></a> on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/witnesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>witnesses</span></a> have been a repeated theme of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> investigations &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> cases over the yrs.<br>Trump’s fmr campaign mgr &amp; fmr campaign adviser were <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/convicted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>convicted</span></a> on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WitnessTampering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WitnessTampering</span></a> charges in 2018 &amp; 19. The adviser told a witness to “do a ‘Frank Pentangeli’”–a character in “The Godfather Part II” who lies to a Senate cmte investigating <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OrganizedCrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganizedCrime</span></a>. Trump later <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pardoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pardoned</span></a> both men….(He didn’t pardon a co-defendant of the campaign manager who had cooperated)</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeorgiaLongstreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgiaLongstreet</span></a> is reading a series of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tweets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tweets</span></a> from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, many of them attacks on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelCohen</span></a>. She just read a post in which Trump unfavorably compared Cohen — who made the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HushMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HushMoney</span></a> payment to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StormyDaniels</span></a> &amp; is expected to testify starting Monday — to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaulManafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulManafort</span></a>, who pleaded <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guilty</span></a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crimes</span></a> &amp; was sentenced to 7 years in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> but was <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pardoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pardoned</span></a> by Trump while he was still in office.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CatchAndKill</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The judge rejected his entreaties…, ordering <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Manafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manafort</span></a> to remain behind bars for &gt;7 yrs. &lt;2 yrs later, however, Manafort’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> record was wiped clean when <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pardoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pardoned</span></a> him among the dozens of allies, extended family members &amp; fmr campaign staffers allowed to walk free.
W/his freedom, Manafort hardly retired to a quiet home life. Instead, the longtime <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> broker —briefly brought low by the investigation into <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a>— reengaged in international consulting.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>