Pardon me? It's an easy ask if you're a Trump 'rogue'

By Tom Burke / Herald Columnist

Hey, readers! Big news broke last week and I hope you didn’t miss it: Stealing money is OK.

With Trump daily flooding the zone with outrageous behavior — tariffs, Gestapo-like immigration arrests, government shutdowns, firing tens of thousands of civil service workers, extra-judicial killings of alleged drug runners, ludicrous claims about vaccines, deficit-exploding spending bills, compromising the Justice Department, denying climate change, a White House’ historic East Wing torn down for a ballroom, etc. — we often forget what he did last week, let alone last month or a year or three ago.

But a few minutes recollection makes it obvious that if you support the Big Lie, or the idea Trump is being persecuted, or applaud Project 2025 — BINGO! — you got a presidential pardon or commutation and a free pass to do any crime you fancy.

I mean, how else to explain how disgraced and expelled congressman George Santos, who pleaded guilty to federal charges of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud (to the tune of more than $370,000) was released from prison early.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/burke-pardon-me-its-an-easy-ask-if-youre-a-trump-rogue/