A few Trump observations
Since our resident Commissar has gone over the President’s Memorial Day Truth Social post in such detail, let’s try to somewhat more rationally look at a few other things. From West Point:
That includes the first two women in West Point history to complete Diver School; cadets Megan Cooper and Clara Sebu. Where are you? Stand up. Where are they? Wow. Great job. That is not easy. Congratulations, Megan, Clara. That’s a job well done.
Thought we weren’t recognizing DEI-type firsts?
Actually I think we should recognize folks exceeding all expectations – remember when we railed against idiots removing Enola ‘Gay’ references, Tuskegee Airman history, etc?
And we had years and years of recruiting shortfalls, and just last year was the worst of all, the last year of the Biden administration. We couldn’t get anybody to join our military.
I was investigated more than the great late Alphonse Capone.
And we weren’t even thought about, nobody had a Victory Day, and so I named that special day and another special day from now on as a holiday, but a holiday where we work because we don’t have enough days.We’re going to be having so many holidays, we’re not going to be able to work anymore. But I named it for World War II, and a separate day in November, as you know, for World War I.
We won the Second World War right here from West Point. And that’s something, and we’re gonna be talking about it. You know, they can talk about it, and in some cases, as you know, they didn’t do too much to help. They were ground down, but they were celebrating victory. No, we’re gonna celebrate victory because we’re the ones that won that war. Roll Call
President Donald Trump has pardoned a sheriff from Virginia — who happens to be a stalwart MAGA supporter — after his conviction of accepting more than $75,000 in bribes.
Trump announced the pardon in a Truth Social post on Monday.
He declared that former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins would receive a “full and unconditional” pardon in the Memorial Day social media missive.
Said sheriff was convicted of bribery, corruption, and fraud in December, and was alleged to have taken $75,000 in bribes.
Prior to losing an election in 2023 for the sheriff’s job, Jenkins had been Culpeper County’s top law enforcement officer for more than a decade.
That long career fell apart after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia brought allegations against Jenkins accusing him of taking tens of thousands of dollars worth of bribes in exchange for appointing businessmen from Northern Virginia as auxiliary sheriffs. The businessmen reportedly weren’t interested in enforcing the law, but rather skirting traffic tickets and carrying concealed guns without the need for a permit, according to prosecutors.
Officials said that none of the men who paid for the positions were trained for the roles, or vetted, and none ever rendered any kind of law enforcement service to the sheriff’s department. The Independent
Not every DOJ conviction is political. I’d sure like to see how this conviction was a political witch-hunt (Trump’s view) and what makes this guy worth pardoning OTHER than the MAGA conviction? Did he buy multiple seats at Trump’s memecoin dinner? This seems to be some Biden-level stuff here.
And we get to the Chrisleys…reality-TV darlings of “Chrisley Knows Best” were convicted of defrauding banks of tens of millions of dollars in a prosecution started by a Trump appointed DOJ prosecutor.
Todd Chrisley was sentenced to 12 years in prison in November 2022 after an Atlanta jury found him guilty of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States. His wife was sentenced to seven years in prison for the same crimes. NBC News
Or there is Larry Hoover, whose Federal life sentence was commuted. Head of crime family Gangster Disciples, he has been in SuperMax for 20 years, they say. He had to be transferred there since he was allegedly communicating with, and running, his old gang from Illinois prison. Larry says he is reformed. Bet everyone else in SuperMax would say the same. Why give him ANY pardon?
Hoover’s attorneys, meanwhile, have claimed that decades behind bars have left him a changed man and that prosecutors have unfairly painted him as a puppet master to try to keep him locked up.
At a hearing last year, U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey asked Hoover’s defense attorney point-blank: “How many other murders is he responsible for?”
“I don’t know what the methodology is for determining that,” attorney Jennifer Bonjean replied, somewhat taken aback by the unusually blunt query.
“So many we can’t count?” Blakey shot back. Chicago Tribune
Not sure what it takes to get a judge to ask that kind of question, but it seems doubtful “reformed” has much to do with it.
So why all these pardons?
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I guess I just don’t keep up with the news. I saw the news on the Chrisleys pardons and I had no idea who they were. I tried to read the news story to see what they were in prison for, and all it would say was how difficult the process of getting the pardon was, and how wonderful their daughter was. I am so used to the press harping on fake news that about leaked “war plans” which have nothing to do with reality, I guess I am surprised when they don’t even tell you anything at all.
I saw the one about the Sheriff the other week and wondered the same, if there was a deeper story that was going to come out. I have heard of people donating to sheriffs before and becoming deputies, but usually they at least help guide traffic or something.
I don’t remember David going hunting down the most minuscule news about Joe Biden, let alone the JEF.
I want to see the evidence on that sheriff’s corruption. And the party affiliation of all involved in his prosecution.
You weren’t paying attention. You only have a bit over 1,000 columns to catch up on.
Nothing President Trump says, does, or how he says, or does it surprises me. Neither does the spin that various “news” sources put on what he says, or does. A typical Noo Yawk Shitty bombastic, opinionated personality. Nature of the beast. And “news” sources are no longer “news”…they’re more of opinion pieces. Very hard to get all of the facts on anything anymore, despite having the whole world at ones finger tips thru the inherwebz.
I didn’t vote for Trump because of his personality…or lack thereof. I voted for him, with a glimmer of hope, that he would actually do something positive to turn the Country around and do what is best for America. But as we all know…Hope is no battle plan. We’ll see.
Prepare
We voted for him based upon what he does, not what he says. Trump is not a politician. True professional politicians rarely do what they promise to get elected.
Why anyone listens to any politician mystifies me. I occasionally listened to Ronald Reagan, only because he told funny jokes.
Hoover should have stayed with his Vacume cleaners
Jenkins is a straight up criminal and a swamp creature of the first order.
Piss on Trump.
I read an article on the aforementioned sheriff yesterday. I’m not 100% in favor of pardoning him, but what I read about the “trial” he had, he damn sure got screwed. He may be guilty, but when the judge will not allow any exculpatory evidence from the defense, there’s fuckery afoot. Even Manson deserved a fair trial, and I don’t think this guy got one.
Very similar situation with the Chrisely’s. Don’t care for them, thought the show was asinine (except for Todd’s mom, one awesome old broad), but the prosecution and judge had a hard-on for them and went way above and beyond. The MSM has left out a lot. Google is your friend.
He was selling badges. Fuck him.
Yup, probably guilty as hell. Doesn’t excuse the farce of a trial.
The trial wasn’t a farce. He sold badges to undercover agents and convicted felons. They testified at his trial. There were a lot more people and money involved than just those specified. If there is some kind of smoking gun if innocence I’d love to see it.
My point is that according to the article I read yesterday, the defense had a lot of exculpatory evidence that the judge flat refused to even look at. It may or may not have exonerated him, may not have made a difference in the outcome. I’m not defending this guy, I’m saying the judicial process was seriously jacked up.
I find it telling that while in these cases they CLAIMED to have exculpatory evidence, they never said what it actually was. Once the trial was over they could have made their case publicly, or leaked info to leverage the judge – neither did either. Reminds me of the famous “we have concrete PROOF the election was stolen” “Ok, show us” “uh, well we are pretty sure it was stolen. Musta been. We lost”
Now exactly why would you want to release exculpatory evidence if the judge says no to it, doesn’t even want to know what it is, and rules on the case anyway? I’m no lawer, but at that stage, releasing it would destroy any appeal you might have had. You don’t play poker, do you? It’s called “tipping your hand”. Very bad tactic. Your examples aren’t even remotely similar.
Ditto. On occasion my clients have been the victims of judges that put their thumbs on the scale. I hate them as much as corrupt attorneys. They can do a lot of damage.
Wouldn’t surprise me a bit. Not having a life, I watch entirely too much internet and am particularly fascinated watching real court cases. It was very depressing finding out that there are judges out there who cannot seem to form a coherent sentence. And I realize now that “Justice is blind” can be a two-edged sword.
If only every shit bag judge’s decisions were looked at as carefully as these were we might get something more closely approaching a modicum of justice in these United States.
We give judges a lot of power without much in the way of accountability, which is how you end up with judges owning stock in private prison companies in jurisdictions they serve…talk about a conflict of interest.
I hope a great many people are starting to see our judges for what they are, simply people with a law degree trying to adjudicate conflict with their own personal biases and power ambitions and then justify it with a legal opinion that sounds sensible.
Anyone spending any time in a courtroom and still thinking our legal system is about administering actual justice is more than a little naive I think…when you see it as an industry whose product is prisoners it becomes far more readily apparent what we have….it’s terribly inefficient, lacks accountability, and most of our fellow Americans prefer not to think about the ramifications of such a justice system.
And yet, to quote Churchill, “
A few thoughts on some of the reasons Trump was elected. And how far the demonrats and the news media went down. Interesting coupla minutes read. Will make you go hmmmm…and say, welp we knew it was happening and couldn’t stop it.
https://mydailykona.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-collapse-of-old-guard.html
I will maintain till I die that the last three elections were determined by the vote-againsts: 2016 by anti-Hillary voters, ’20 by anti-Trump voters, and ’24 by anti-Harris voters. Trump got their benefit twice, but note what ’20 objectively looked like.
Excellent opinion post… I recommend reading it. Substitute Republican every time you read Democrat in your head…sadly, it still makes too much sense,
You won’t get any argument out of me, David. I agree with all you said. Again…they are all equally worthless to me. Seems like I’ve had to hold my nose and try to “vote” for the lessor of the evils since 1972. Sad…ain’t it?
KoB, thanks for the link to that superb article. Its analysis is spot on and well written. Too bad a certain cuttlefish won’t read it and couldn’t comprehend it even if he did.
Yeah, I thought it was a good one. I spend a lot of time surfing thru various sites (got nothing much else to do) and try to look at issues from all sides. Hard to know what to believe anymore that one doesn’t observe with their own eyes. And, yep…the spapos would not get anything from that except his head exploding…which might not be a bad thing.
Been trying to see what made Hoover worth pardoning, other than maybe it gets him out of Supermax to serve the rest of his 200 year sentence. Objectively, the ONLY people who seem happy about his pardon are his lawyers and immediate family. So why?
Yep…damn good question as to Why. Bet we’ll never know the answer.
Pardons, and the requesting, granting, or “maybe” of them is part and parcel of the sausage making we call politics.
They all do it. Most folks receiving pardons … ain’t pure.
Trump certainly isn’t abusing or obfuscating the system the way his predecessors puppetmasters did via auto-pen. But that obfuscation is possibly because Biden’s handwriting was as likely compromised as his thinking, versus lack of intent. We know 44 and 46 are epic crooks, even by Donk presidential standards.
Trump is wrecking the Donks. Especially their corrupt siphoning of US taxpayer funds. Just for that, many will give him a Yuuuuge pass on the effluvium of DC business.
Orange Bam Bam, go!