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Your defenses of Dinesh D’Souza are garbage

By Becket Adams

Published May 31, 2018 9:16pm ET

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Your defenses of Dinesh D’Souza are garbage — Conservative scholar and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, left, accompanied by his lawyer Benjamin Brafman leave federal court, in New York, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. D'Souza has pleaded guilty in New York federal court to making illegal campaign contributions. He admitted getting two close associates to make $10,000 contributions to Wendy Long. She was a candidate who lost the New York Senate race in 2012 to the Democratic incumbent. His plea agreement calls for a sentence of 10 to 16 months in prison. He'll be sentenced on Sept. 23. | (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

“Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else noticed?” asks the character of Bob Loblaw, an attorney, in the sitcom “Arrested Development.”

That line, which was written as a joke, is being repurposed to defend President Trump’s pardon of political provocateur Dinesh D’Souza, who pleaded guilty in May 2014 to using straw donors to funnel an estimated $20,000 to a New York Senate candidate.

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