Subject: Re: Trump commutes Santos sentence

Trump said he will commute George Santos’s fraud sentence.

It was suggested, on TYT last night, that this was part of a campaign to normalize pardons and commutations for increasingly scummy characters, to normalize clemency, so there will not be an uproar when Maxwell is turned loose.

Of course, on the last go around, Trump commuted the 28 year sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick, who, after doing time on state charges, was convicted on Federal charges for running the city as a "criminal enterprise", so the bar for clemency was already set pretty low.

For a while, Kilpatrick was in the Federal jug in Milan, MI, which is right next to US 23. As I drove past, on my way to visit my aunt in Columbus, I would wave at him, and say "enjoying your day, you lying sack of scum?"

Kilpatrick was found guilty by a jury on two dozen counts including those for racketeering, extortion, mail fraud, and tax evasion, among others. Shortly after conviction, speaking about Kilpatrick, Judge Nancy Edmunds ruled in favor of remand saying "detention is required in his circumstance".[117]

He was sentenced to 28 years in prison on October 10, 2013.

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Steve