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<blockquote data-quote="RobGMN" data-source="post: 8918105" data-attributes="member: 683408">She was pardoned because Trump claimed her conviction for committing the crime was &quot;political persecution&quot;.&quot;Trump commuted her sentence in the final days of his first term after she enlisted two lawyers with connections in his orbit. One of them, Stefan Passantino, had been a deputy White House counsel in the first Trump administration. Another, Adam Katz, represented Rudy Giuliani in a defamation case related to his effort to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election.&quot;I assume you have to ask if we are all in agreement that criminals should get punished, given the oft-repeated sentiment of many here that criminals such as Trump, the insurrectionists, Trump&#039;s white-collar friends, etc, should NOT be punished for their crimes.ANY criminal should get the punishment that is legally prescribed for the crime they commit and are convicted of committing.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.52[/URL]So we must all be in agreement that Trump&#039;s felonies should have resulted in a four-year jail stint for him, and hundreds of millions in fines.Good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobGMN, post: 8918105, member: 683408"] She was pardoned because Trump claimed her conviction for committing the crime was "political persecution". [I]"Trump commuted her sentence in the final days of his first term after she enlisted two lawyers with connections in his orbit. One of them, Stefan Passantino, had been a deputy White House counsel in the first Trump administration. Another, Adam Katz, represented Rudy Giuliani in a defamation case related to his effort to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election."[/I] I assume you have to ask if we are all in agreement that criminals should get punished, given the oft-repeated sentiment of many here that criminals such as Trump, the insurrectionists, Trump's white-collar friends, etc, should NOT be punished for their crimes. ANY criminal should get the punishment that is legally prescribed for the crime they commit and are convicted of committing. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.52[/URL] So we must all be in agreement that Trump's felonies should have resulted in a four-year jail stint for him, and hundreds of millions in fines. Good. [/QUOTE]

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