Last week, Donald Trump has published one of his most scandalous pardons to date, Save Michele Fiore from Nevada Of a prison sentence, despite his conviction on blatant corruption. The White House has never even tried to justify this decision, and there was no great mystery behind the motivation: Fiore has been a loyalist of Trump for years – she has been described as “Lady Trump” of Nevada – and in this administration, it is likely that the president did not need additional information.
But it turns out that it was one of the two pardons emitted roughly at the same time. The New York Times reported::
President Trump has forgiven a framework for health care in Florida, the mother of which played a role while trying to exhibit the content of Ashley Biden’s Journal. The forgiveness of the executive, Paul Walczak, was signed on Wednesday in private and published on the website of the Ministry of Justice on Friday. He came less than two weeks after being sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $ 4.4 million on return, for tax crimes which, according to prosecutors, were used to finance a sumptuous lifestyle, including the purchase of a yacht.
The details of it certainly become a little complicated, given the role of Walczak’s mother in bizarre history surrounding the Ashley Biden newspaper. But let’s not complicate things: there is nothing to suggest that Walczak was involved in the newspaper’s saga, and his criminal conviction was completely not linked to the controversy surrounding the daughter of the former president.
What we have here is a republican donor, of a republican family, who has been surprised to siphon tax payments for his employees – on several occasions, during a decade – in order to finance an extravagant lifestyle.
Although Walczak professed his innocence, he was finally condemned and was about to spend a year and a half behind bars-that is to say until Trump decides to intervene in his case.
Two weeks ago, in Sentencing, the American district judge Kenneth Marra, a man named George W. Bush, said to the accused“Unfortunately, there is a perception in this country that the criminal justice system only works in favor of the rich and against the poor. For Mr. Walczak to move away from it because he found $ 10 million to pay the debt reinforcing this perception – the rich are leaving and the poor go in prison.”
The judge added that Walczak is not entitled to a “out of prison” card.
Obviously, the president has reached the opposite conclusion, helping to fuel a different “perception in this country” that the criminal justice system works more and more in favor of those who align with man at the oval office.
As regular readers know, during Trump’s first mandate, he actually exercised his power of forgiveness as a corrupt weapon, Enriching loyalists,, Finish concealations,, undermine the federal police and shake perverse favors politically connected links.
While Trump was preparing to leave the White House after his electoral defeat in 2020, the Republican delivered Some of the most controversial pardons in American history. After his second inaugural, he did not waste time resuming where he had stopped.
On the first day of his second term, Trump issued around 1,500 pardons and commissioned the criminals of January 14, including violent criminals who were in prison for having attacked police officers. A few days later, he continued, Forgive 23 anti-abortion activistsApparently carefree with their guilt. Which was soon followed by forgiveness For former governor Rob BlagojevichA man synonymous with corruption in Illinois politics, whom Trump considered an ally.
At the beginning of March, He pardoned a republican from Tennessee Who was only two weeks after a sentence of 21 months for his role in a campaign financial fraud program. At the end of March, he forgave an eminent campaign donor. (Asked to defend the latter, the president Involuntarily fought.)
Overall, Trump seems to have created an entirely new legal / political dynamic, unprecedented in the American tradition, in which pardons are available for the perceived political allies with which the president sympathizes.
Traditionally, the presidents have gave graces to repair an evil or protect those who have been falsely accused of reprehensible acts. In 2025, if Trump sees a criminal condemned as an ally, that is apparently everything the president must know.
For all the hysterics of the Gop of the Biden era on a “two level” justice system, it seems that the White House has done everything possible to create the very dynamic Republicans who were against.
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