Trump's questionable vetting for pardons is once again at issue.

[berg80]

New York drug dealer whose prison sentence Trump commuted arrested on assault charges​

A convicted New York drug dealer and predatory lender who walked free from a 10-year federal prison sentence after it was commuted in 2021 by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested on assault charges, court records show.

Jonathan Braun, was accused in court filings in Nassau County, Long Island, of assaulting his 75-year-old father-in-law on Tuesday, as he was trying to protect his daughter from Braun. Separately, Braun was also accused of assaulting that woman, his wife, last month and again last week, The New York Times reported.

Court records show Braun pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Wednesday to three counts of assault and was released on those charges without bail.

He was also accused in Nassau County Supreme Court of petit larceny, which the Times reported is related to allegations he failed to pay $160 in bridge tolls while driving a Lamborghini and Ferrari, both of which lack license plates.

Braun was fined $20 million in February by Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff in a civil case where the Federal Trade Commission had sued Braun for predatory lending practices.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/22/trump-clemency-recipient-jonathan-braun-arrest-assault.html

Trump’s Last-Minute Pardon Frees Man Still Facing Accusations of Violence​

President Donald J. Trump’s late-night commutation of a 10-year prison sentence being served by a drug smuggler named Jonathan Braun made the action sound almost routine. The White House said only that upon his release, Mr. Braun would “seek employment to support his wife and children.”

What the White House did not mention is that Mr. Braun, a New Yorker from Staten Island who had pleaded guilty in 2011 to leading a large-scale marijuana smuggling ring, still faces both criminal and civil investigations in an entirely separate matter, and has a history of violence and threatening people.
As recently as two and a half years ago, Mr. Braun was accused of throwing a man off a deck at an engagement party. Federal prosecutors said in a court proceeding that he threatened to beat a rabbi who borrowed money to renovate a preschool at his synagogue. “I am going to make you bleed,” he told the rabbi, according to court documents, adding, “I will make you suffer for every penny.”

Trump’s Last-Minute Pardon Frees Man Still Facing Accusations of Violence (Published 2021)

Jonathan Braun’s 10-year sentence for running a drug ring was commuted by the departing president. The White House did not mention that he faces separate accusations of violence and threats.

www.nytimes.com

There is a formal process involving the DoJ the WH is supposed to go through for folks who apply for a pardon or a commutation of a sentence. A review board normally takes a look at each case and makes a recommendation to the prez.

That process was circumvented as trump doled out clemency to friends, allies, donors, witnesses who did not cooperate with investigations that involved him and his campaign, and those who could help him politically. Does anyone really think a review board would have recommended the pardon of convicted felon Roger Stone?

This is the kind of demonstrable corruption you're voting for if you vote for His Orangeness.

 

[1srelluc]

Yawn.

 

[theHawk]

Court records show Braun pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Wednesday to three counts of assault and was released on those charges without bail

If Trump commuting his sentence was so bad, then why was he released without bail?

What an epic fail trying to make it look like Dems are the ones tough on crime.

 

[Auld Phart]

New York drug dealer whose prison sentence Trump commuted arrested on assault charges​

A convicted New York drug dealer and predatory lender who walked free from a 10-year federal prison sentence after it was commuted in 2021 by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested on assault charges, court records show.

Jonathan Braun, was accused in court filings in Nassau County, Long Island, of assaulting his 75-year-old father-in-law on Tuesday, as he was trying to protect his daughter from Braun. Separately, Braun was also accused of assaulting that woman, his wife, last month and again last week, The New York Times reported.

Court records show Braun pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Wednesday to three counts of assault and was released on those charges without bail.

He was also accused in Nassau County Supreme Court of petit larceny, which the Times reported is related to allegations he failed to pay $160 in bridge tolls while driving a Lamborghini and Ferrari, both of which lack license plates.

Braun was fined $20 million in February by Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff in a civil case where the Federal Trade Commission had sued Braun for predatory lending practices.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/22/trump-clemency-recipient-jonathan-braun-arrest-assault.html

Trump’s Last-Minute Pardon Frees Man Still Facing Accusations of Violence​

President Donald J. Trump’s late-night commutation of a 10-year prison sentence being served by a drug smuggler named Jonathan Braun made the action sound almost routine. The White House said only that upon his release, Mr. Braun would “seek employment to support his wife and children.”

What the White House did not mention is that Mr. Braun, a New Yorker from Staten Island who had pleaded guilty in 2011 to leading a large-scale marijuana smuggling ring, still faces both criminal and civil investigations in an entirely separate matter, and has a history of violence and threatening people.
As recently as two and a half years ago, Mr. Braun was accused of throwing a man off a deck at an engagement party. Federal prosecutors said in a court proceeding that he threatened to beat a rabbi who borrowed money to renovate a preschool at his synagogue. “I am going to make you bleed,” he told the rabbi, according to court documents, adding, “I will make you suffer for every penny.”

Trump’s Last-Minute Pardon Frees Man Still Facing Accusations of Violence (Published 2021)

Jonathan Braun’s 10-year sentence for running a drug ring was commuted by the departing president. The White House did not mention that he faces separate accusations of violence and threats.

www.nytimes.com

There is a formal process involving the DoJ the WH is supposed to go through for folks who apply for a pardon or a commutation of a sentence. A review board normally takes a look at each case and makes a recommendation to the prez.

That process was circumvented as trump doled out clemency to friends, allies, donors, witnesses who did not cooperate with investigations that involved him and his campaign, and those who could help him politically. Does anyone really think a review board would have recommended the pardon of convicted felon Roger Stone?

This is the kind of demonstrable corruption you're voting for if you vote for His Orangeness.

now all of a sudden you're against revolving door justice?

 

[Polishprince]

Mr. Braun was accused of peddling grass. I thought the libs were in favor of smoking the wacky tobacky?

Kamala has admitted to being a pothead, no?

 

[berg80]

Mr. Braun was accused of peddling grass.

You appear to be willfully ignorant.

President Donald J. Trump’s late-night commutation of a 10-year prison sentence being served by a drug smuggler named Jonathan Braun made the action sound almost routine. The White House said only that upon his release, Mr. Braun would “seek employment to support his wife and children.”

What the White House did not mention is that Mr. Braun, a New Yorker from Staten Island who had pleaded guilty in 2011 to leading a large-scale marijuana smuggling ring, still faces both criminal and civil investigations in an entirely separate matter, and has a history of violence and threatening people.

 

[berg80]

now all of a sudden you're against revolving door justice?

Fatuous claims with no basis in truth do not cover up trump's record of giving pardons to
friends, allies, donors, witnesses who did not cooperate with investigations that involved him and his campaign, and those who could help him politically.

 

[Polishprince]

You appear to be willfully ignorant.

President Donald J. Trump’s late-night commutation of a 10-year prison sentence being served by a drug smuggler named Jonathan Braun made the action sound almost routine. The White House said only that upon his release, Mr. Braun would “seek employment to support his wife and children.”

What the White House did not mention is that Mr. Braun, a New Yorker from Staten Island who had pleaded guilty in 2011 to leading a large-scale marijuana smuggling ring, still faces both criminal and civil investigations in an entirely separate matter, and has a history of violence and threatening people.

If people don't want to pay for their grass, of course the fellow is going to threaten them. All potheads do that.

It isn't like they can take a deadbeat to court to make him pay.

 

[Auld Phart]

Fatuous claims with no basis in truth do not cover up trump's record of giving pardons to
friends, allies, donors, witnesses who did not cooperate with investigations that involved him and his campaign, and those who could help him politically.

so, he did the same as most of his predecessors?

 

[berg80]

If people don't want to pay for their grass, of course the fellow is going to threaten them. All potheads do that.

It isn't like they can take a deadbeat to court to make him pay.

What about Braun being convicted of drug smuggling don't you understand? Or him being pardoned despite having a record of violence?

Wait.........sorry..........I forgot.........members of cults are incapable of finding fault with their leader even for something as blatantly wrong as this.

“I am going to make you bleed,” he told the rabbi, according to court documents, adding, “I will make you suffer for every penny.”

Sound like a guy worthy of being pardoned to you?

 

[berg80]

so, he did the same as most of his predecessors?

As you know, you're full of shit.

“I am going to make you bleed,” he told the rabbi, according to court documents, adding, “I will make you suffer for every penny.”

Sound like a guy worthy of being pardoned to you?

 

[Auld Phart]

As you know, you're full of shit.

“I am going to make you bleed,” he told the rabbi, according to court documents, adding, “I will make you suffer for every penny.”

Sound like a guy worthy of being pardoned to you?

how many pardons did Clinton sell?

Johnson pardoned the confederate soldiers

Carter pardoned draft dodgers.

The most controversial presidential pardons in US history

On Dec. 22, President Trump pardoned or commuted the prison sentences of 20 people in what’s expected to be the start of a final spree of presidential clemency. The Constitution gives the pre…

nypost.com

 

[berg80]

how many pardons did Clinton sell?

You are the master of whataboutisms. It's sad that you have no argument to make in defense of your blind devotion to former president bone spurs.

A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners​

Jonathan Braun of New York had served just two and a half years of a decade-long sentence for running a massive marijuana ring, when Mr. Trump, at 12:51 a.m. on his last day in office, announced he would be freed.

Mr. Braun was, to say the least, an unusual candidate for clemency.

At the time, Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department and federal regulators, as well as New York state authorities, were still after him for his role in an entirely separate matter: his work as a predatory lender, making what judges later found were fraudulent and usurious loans to cash-strapped small businesses.

A New York Times investigation, drawing on documents and interviews with current and former officials, and others familiar with Mr. Braun’s case, found there were even greater ramifications stemming from the commutation than previously known and revealed new details about Mr. Braun’s history and how the commutation came about.

• In working to secure his release, Mr. Braun’s family used a connection to Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser, to try to get the matter before Mr. Trump. Jared Kushner’s White House office drafted the language used in the news release to announce commutations for Mr. Braun and others.

A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners

A commutation for a drug smuggler named Jonathan Braun had broader implications than previously known. It puts new focus on how Donald Trump would use his clemency powers in a second term.

www.nytimes.com

Would you like to know why it so difficult for you to just say, "okay, trump made a mistake." It's because.............CULT.

 

[Auld Phart]

You are the master of whataboutisms. It's sad that you have no argument to make in defense of your blind devotion to former president bone spurs.

A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners​

Jonathan Braun of New York had served just two and a half years of a decade-long sentence for running a massive marijuana ring, when Mr. Trump, at 12:51 a.m. on his last day in office, announced he would be freed.

Mr. Braun was, to say the least, an unusual candidate for clemency.

At the time, Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department and federal regulators, as well as New York state authorities, were still after him for his role in an entirely separate matter: his work as a predatory lender, making what judges later found were fraudulent and usurious loans to cash-strapped small businesses.

A New York Times investigation, drawing on documents and interviews with current and former officials, and others familiar with Mr. Braun’s case, found there were even greater ramifications stemming from the commutation than previously known and revealed new details about Mr. Braun’s history and how the commutation came about.

• In working to secure his release, Mr. Braun’s family used a connection to Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser, to try to get the matter before Mr. Trump. Jared Kushner’s White House office drafted the language used in the news release to announce commutations for Mr. Braun and others.

A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners

A commutation for a drug smuggler named Jonathan Braun had broader implications than previously known. It puts new focus on how Donald Trump would use his clemency powers in a second term.

www.nytimes.com

Would you like to know why it so difficult for you to just say, "okay, trump made a mistake." It's because.............CULT.

It's sad that you have no argument to make in defense of your blind devotion to former president bone spurs.

devotion to trump?

this will be the third election in a row I won't be voting for a presidential candidate.

were you born stupid, or did you need surgery?

He's not doing anything the majority of his predecessors did.

if you want to talk about a cult, talk about the anti-Trump cult you pay homage to?

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

New York drug dealer whose prison sentence Trump commuted arrested on assault charges​

A convicted New York drug dealer and predatory lender who walked free from a 10-year federal prison sentence after it was commuted in 2021 by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested on assault charges, court records show.

Jonathan Braun, was accused in court filings in Nassau County, Long Island, of assaulting his 75-year-old father-in-law on Tuesday, as he was trying to protect his daughter from Braun. Separately, Braun was also accused of assaulting that woman, his wife, last month and again last week, The New York Times reported.

Court records show Braun pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Wednesday to three counts of assault and was released on those charges without bail.

He was also accused in Nassau County Supreme Court of petit larceny, which the Times reported is related to allegations he failed to pay $160 in bridge tolls while driving a Lamborghini and Ferrari, both of which lack license plates.

Braun was fined $20 million in February by Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff in a civil case where the Federal Trade Commission had sued Braun for predatory lending practices.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/22/trump-clemency-recipient-jonathan-braun-arrest-assault.html

Trump’s Last-Minute Pardon Frees Man Still Facing Accusations of Violence​

President Donald J. Trump’s late-night commutation of a 10-year prison sentence being served by a drug smuggler named Jonathan Braun made the action sound almost routine. The White House said only that upon his release, Mr. Braun would “seek employment to support his wife and children.”

What the White House did not mention is that Mr. Braun, a New Yorker from Staten Island who had pleaded guilty in 2011 to leading a large-scale marijuana smuggling ring, still faces both criminal and civil investigations in an entirely separate matter, and has a history of violence and threatening people.
As recently as two and a half years ago, Mr. Braun was accused of throwing a man off a deck at an engagement party. Federal prosecutors said in a court proceeding that he threatened to beat a rabbi who borrowed money to renovate a preschool at his synagogue. “I am going to make you bleed,” he told the rabbi, according to court documents, adding, “I will make you suffer for every penny.”

Trump’s Last-Minute Pardon Frees Man Still Facing Accusations of Violence (Published 2021)

Jonathan Braun’s 10-year sentence for running a drug ring was commuted by the departing president. The White House did not mention that he faces separate accusations of violence and threats.

www.nytimes.com

There is a formal process involving the DoJ the WH is supposed to go through for folks who apply for a pardon or a commutation of a sentence. A review board normally takes a look at each case and makes a recommendation to the prez.

That process was circumvented as trump doled out clemency to friends, allies, donors, witnesses who did not cooperate with investigations that involved him and his campaign, and those who could help him politically. Does anyone really think a review board would have recommended the pardon of convicted felon Roger Stone?

This is the kind of demonstrable corruption you're voting for if you vote for His Orangeness.

Orange bag O' shit.

 

[berg80]

He's not doing anything the majority of his predecessors did.

It's curious you claim not to be devoted to trump yet you constantly lie in his defense. Name a single person pardoned by any previous prez who was given the pardon in return for not cooperating in a criminal investigation of that prez as Roger Stone was.

 

[berg80]

Orange bag O' shit.

There is no scenario by which any other prez would have commuted Braun's sentence. It stands as another beacon of trump's corrupt abuses of power.

 

[Rawley]

Yawn.

Holy shit. If this is how deep they have to dig, things must be quite desperate in the Harris/Stolen Valor campaign.

 

[Auld Phart]

It's curious you claim not to be devoted to trump yet you constantly lie in his defense. Name a single person pardoned by any previous prez who was given the pardon in return for not cooperating in a criminal investigation of that prez as Roger Stone was.

It's curious you claim not to be devoted to trump yet you constantly lie in his defense.

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[Lesh]

If people don't want to pay for their grass, of course the fellow is going to threaten them. All potheads do that.

It isn't like they can take a deadbeat to court to make him pay.

Are you fucking serious?