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New York’s new AG comes up with the worst possible response to Trump’s garbage pardons

By Becket Adams
Published June 1, 2018 7:38pm ET
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New York’s new AG comes up with the worst possible response to Trump’s garbage pardons
Dinesh D'Souza leaves federal court in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 after being sentenced to spend eight months in community confinement and undergo therapeutic counseling for arranging straw donors for a Senate candidate. D'Souza was spared from prison even though U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman said the defendant continues to deflect responsibility and minimize his crime. | (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)

It seems that whenever President Trump has a bad idea, the opposition proposes something worse.

The president announced this week that he’d pardon political activist Dinesh D’Souza, who pleaded guilty in May 2014 to campaign finance violations. After accepting blame in court, he has since gone out of his way to turn himself into a martyr, an Obama-era political prisoner.

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