Trump Says He'll Make Black Woman He Pardoned 'Pardon Czar'

Trump Says He’ll Make Black Woman He Pardoned ‘Pardon Czar’

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At this level, President Donald Trump’s administration has change into a caricature of itself.

Trump’s cupboard already features a Well being and Human Companies (HHS) Secretary who spreads medical misinformation, dabbles in medical racism, and doesn’t appear to know the distinction between Medicare and Medicaid. We even have a Secretary of Protection who doesn’t appear to have a agency grasp on who our worldwide allies are, a counterterrorism chief who thinks Jan. 6 terrorists have been “political prisoners,” and a “border czar” who wouldn’t have the ability to grasp constitutional regulation if it have been a brown individual sneaking over the southern border with out correct paperwork.

In fact, now, Trump seems to be eyeing the primary Black individual as somebody who might be a part of his administration since he gave a Black man the Division of Housing and City Growth spot, which gave the impression to be the one “Black job” that was ever accessible in his Cupboard.

Now, prepare for President Donald Trump’s — *checks notes* — “pardon czar.”

From CBS Information:

President Trump is tapping Alice Johnson, the 69-year-old grandmother he granted clemency in his first time period over long-ago drug offenses, to be his “pardon czar.”

The president made the announcement throughout a Black Historical past Month occasion within the White Home East Room Thursday afternoon. Johnson spent over 21 years in jail for nonviolent drug-related crimes when Mr. Trump commuted her sentence and he or she was launched in 2018. Mr. Trump later issued her a full pardon.

“You’ve been an inspiration to individuals, and we’re going to be listening to your advice on pardons,” Mr. Trump instructed Johnson on Thursday. ” You’re going to go over and also you’re going to be — you’re going to, she’s going to be my pardon czar, okay? And also you’re going to search out individuals similar to you that ought to not this could not have occurred. It mustn’t have occurred. So that you’re going to look and also you’re going to make suggestions, and I’ll comply with these suggestions, okay? For pardons. All proper?”

Mr. Trump stated Johnson was “in jail for doing one thing that in the present day most likely wouldn’t even be prosecuted.”

Initially, this couldn’t be the identical Donald Trump who, just some years in the past, recommended WNBA star Brittney Griner’s keep in a Russian jail was justified as a result of she was “loaded up with medicine,” when she was really solely “loaded up” with lower than a gram of hashish oil.

Secondly, is Trump simply creating random positions and throwing the phrase “czar” behind it now? I swear he’s the overtly bigoted model of each cartoon mayor ever.

Lastly, it’s fairly clear that Trump was utilizing his BLM celebration to pander to his few Black supporters by way of a name again to the pardons that occurred underneath his first administration, which included plenty of Black individuals who have been locked up for nonviolent offenses but additionally included cops convicted for egregious police brutality, and U.S. troopers convicted of massacring greater than a dozen Iraqi civilians unprovoked. (For the sake of bandwidth, I gained’t waste time harping on the 1,500 some odd home terrorists Trump not too long ago pardoned after they have been convicted for the assault on the U.S. Capitol that he instigated.)

Don’t get me improper, it’s a great factor that Johnson and others like her have been launched, however we’re not going to faux Trump’s motive was social justice and never his shameless agenda of accumulating “Black pals” whereas serving as arguably essentially the most anti-Black president in current historical past.

Nah, we’re not about to let him gaslight us like this.

Let me cease earlier than he appoints a “gaslight czar.”