DINESH D’SOUZA made his name making racially accented digs at Barack Obama. He mocked the teenage survivors of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida. He claimed that the fatal white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was staged. The conservative writer is also a convicted criminal. In 2014 he was convicted of campaign-finance fraud, to which he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to five years of probation, which he himself described as “fair”. On May 31st, President Donald Trump said he would pardon Mr D’Souza, declaring on Twitter that he was “treated very unfairly by our government!”
This is the fifth pardon Mr Trump has issued 16 months into his presidency. His three predecessors had issued one or none at a comparable stage. And Mr Trump says he is considering absolving more crimes. He thinks he might pardon Martha Stewart (pictured), the lifestyle guru who did time after lying to investigators about the timing of a sale of biotech shares. He is also considering commuting the sentence of Rod...Continue reading
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