Trump shortchanges victims and taxpayers nearly $2 billion
Based on restitution amounts listed on the U.S. Department of Justice’s official clemency pages for Trump’s first term, plus restitution amounts tied to current-term clemency actions, the amounts owed by those Trump has pardoned total more than $1.3 billion in court-ordered restitution and pending restitution requests. When forfeiture and fine amounts tied to Trump’s clemency actions are added, the combined total reaches nearly $2 billion in court-ordered and court-requested financial penalties.
I am just baffled how a democratic country could give such powers to a single person. A president shouldnt be able to pardon anyone.
People from other countries have a hard time understanding that our constitution is 240 years old. It was written at a time when a government literally couldn’t have such power.
Are you saying the Constitution wasn’t originally written in a way that it afforded the US government such powers?
Because, first of all, we know how young your country is. Second, kings and queens surely pardoned people all the time, no?
The presidency was a LOT less abusable 250 years ago
But I thought he was fighting real fraud to make this country safe? /s
