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>>President Trump has pardoned a Florida health care executive whose mother played a role in trying to expose the contents of Ashley Biden’s diary. The pardon of the executive, Paul Walczak, was signed privately on Wednesday and posted on the Justice Department’s website on Friday. It came less than two weeks after he was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution, for tax crimes that prosecutors said were used to finance a lavish lifestyle, including the purchase of a yacht. Mr. Walczak’s mother, Elizabeth Fago, who was also involved in the health care industry in Florida, is a longtime Republican donor and fund-raiser who played a role in a surreptitious effort to help Mr. Trump by undermining Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the 2020 presidential election. During the campaign, Ms. Fago was contacted by a man who was in possession of a diary kept by Mr. Biden’s daughter, Ashley, as she recovered from addiction, The New York Times previously reported. When first told of the diary, Ms. Fago said she thought it would help Mr. Trump’s chances of winning the election if it was made public, two people familiar with the matter later told The Times. The man, Robert Kurlander, circulated the diary at a fund-raiser at Ms. Fago’s house in Jupiter, Fla., in September 2020. Ms. Fago’s daughter passed along a tip about the diary to Project Veritas, a conservative group that had become a favorite of Mr. Trump’s. Project Veritas later paid $40,000 to Mr. Kurlander and an associate, Aimee Harris, for the diary. The Justice Department investigated the theft and handling of the diary, which included scrutiny of Ms. Fago and her daughter. Neither they nor anyone from Project Veritas was charged, but Mr. Kurlander and Ms. Harris were convicted in connection with the scheme.<<

This is ultimately sad and tragic. Giuffre’s courage unearthed all the awfulness. RIP.

Not you, but everyone, try being respectful & polite. That’s it.

Big Orange lardons convicted son of donor who played a role in scheme to disseminate Biden dirt.

No one EVER goes thru the jury door except the jury and select members of the court. They literally had to chase him down outside. JHC, get a clue. That's not "per the Affidavit," this is per the Affidavit: I don't know if a case can be dismissed at arraignment but this might be, especially if it's treated as a preliminary hearing.

It's fine, it's a better point, and I agree. But my point is Trump was never arrested and cuffed at his home or on the street or in public. He was given the option to surrender at a time and manner of his choosing. I understand your point

The Affidavit says the judge pointed the guy to the exit through the jury door, whereupon he went into a public hallway filled with agents, whereupon he was arrested. This won't make it past arraignment.

Trump has surrendered for a fourth time this year. Here’s where all the cases against him stand Breitbart :shrug:

Dude, ask the most conservative cop, look at Breitbart, look it up on The Flaming Orange Journal, they'll all say the same thing.

I get the point. I'm just saying Trump & Co. will be giving her due process apparently.

That's correct, Trump was never arrested, he was given the option to surrender. There's a difference.

See this puzzles me too - why not send her to El Salvador? Y'all are going soft. You really want her to have an arraignment, pre-trial hearings, a jury?

Eh for the record, Trump was never arrested, even in his four indictments. He was indicted then it was offered for him to show up for processing at an arranged time at his preference.

My word, would you look at the corruption.

Buddy, you're not gonna be in the courtroom. The basis of the arrest is that the wanted individual went to a different elevator than the one closest to the courtroom. But hey, have fun stormin' the castle...

Apparently the DOJ does, they filed an Affidavit about it.

Corruption. Really. Do you think she was paid to allow him exit the courtroom through a side door?

This is definitely true - ignoring the law, being sued, losing, and then backtracking the illegal action will be before more than one judge and it is going to be very costly.

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This is a problem for the DOJ, not the judge.

What an eccentric response, thank you.

Thanks as always for the discussion. Have a good one.

He threatened to, then he did but then he didn’t. The US is still funding Ukraine. He may have genuinely believed that Ukraine would just fold when he did that, they didn’t, he relented & what’s more he’s embroiled the US in the minerals deal which is pretty funny because now we have a formal economic tie to Ukraine. But again why does Trump care about a peace deal?

Fox this morning had a live report from the Long Beach port reporting that incoming container shipments are way down & port employment is sharply down. There’s no work. It’s just a repeat of the Covid supply chain debacle.

SMDH.