We have a serious problem in our government. I think there’s always been an ethical line, for the most part, that presidents, although having the power to pardon people, should not be able to pardon people as a quid quo pro. For example, if a president said “Go ahead and do this illegal act and I will pardon you afterwards.” Or made a distinction between pardoning people who are partisan for him particularly (Bill Clinton and Marc Rich, for example) The odious combination of the SCOTUS decision to say that the president has immunity for official acts while not being able to dig in and figure out why it’s okay to do murder, etc, and other criminal acts is a wrong one. And this led Trump to say “okay, I’m the president, I have immunity and I’m going to promise (bribe) people into doing wrong things for me and will give them a pardon for it. I also believe that he, as a convicted felon, should not have the ability to pardon people; that might take actually modifying the constitution. This government is being run like a criminal enterprise.
— Tori Foote (@toriatheisttori.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM
There are two latest examples of Trump, in my opinion, abusing his pardon power by granting pardons to people who should NOT get pardons or commuted sentences.
First, David Gentile. This man defrauded people of $1.6 billion dollars in a phony investment scheme and was sentence to 7 years in prison. Trump commuted his sentence after 7 days in prison. Did Gentile use some of that money he got from fraud to bribe Trump into a back-door commutation?
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
— Grant Feller (@grantfeller.bsky.social) November 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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USA Today -notice in the article that what David Gentile was doing was characterized as a ponzi scheme.
“The defendants built GPB Capital on a foundation of lies,” United States Attorney Joseph Nocella, Jr. said in a statement after the sentencing. “They raised approximately $1.6 billion from individual investors based on false promises of generating investment returns from the profits of portfolio companies, all while using investor capital to pay distributions and create a false appearance of success.”
I think some person were grossly deluted by America First slogan of rouge man in WH, they thought that meant he would help average Americans…well obviousliy not because less than 1 week after a crook (David Gentile) was found guilty of cheating 1.68 from 1000 victims, he was pardoned by trump.
— James Garman-8647 (@jas-gar.bsky.social) December 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Then, did you think that Trump actually cares about drugs in America and the people responsible for doing it? I mean, and I have not written about it yet, he and that drunk Hegseth were running around murdering people in fishing boats in Venezuela with the pretext that they were drug smugglers (lie) But he goes and pardons former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had a role in helping move TONS of cocaine to the United States and was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
So, clearly this is not about drugs, which you can tell Trump does not give a hoot about. What it probably is about is Trump trying to interfere with elections being held in Honduras
A reminder that Trump accused the sitting President of Colombia of being a drug dealer without evidence, but he pardons a former President of Honduras convicted in a US court because there's an election this week in Honduras where Trump wants the right wing party to win. Corrupt and stupid.
— Texas Lopez⭐️ (@texaslopez.bsky.social) November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Presidential election in Honduras: left-wing candidate Rixi Moncada denounces Donald Trump’s “interference actions” The US president called for a vote for right-wing businessman Nasry Asfura, then announced that he would pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking in the United States.
TRUMP: If you’re trafficking drugs to the U.S. via the Caribbean I will kill you. ALSO TRUMP: If you’re doing time because you helped traffic 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S. via Honduras you get a “Full and Complete Pardon.” www.justice.gov/archives/opa…
— Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The last time Trump claimed he didn’t know someone he had pardoned came when he pardoned a crypto mogul who has made the Trump family billions of dollars in cash. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pard…
— Justin Glawe (@justinglawe.bsky.social) December 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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— Stephen Moran. (@moranstephen1000.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I don’t know if there is a law in the US (not that Trump would follow it) that prevents our country from interfering in another country’s elections. But it is a greasy thing to do what looks like a quid pro quo to let a criminal out of jail right arond election time in Honduras and one has to wonder if Trump got paid for doing this?
Along that same line, where is the money being kept track of around pardons? Is it an industry in which lobbyists and political allies, etc pay money to get someone pardoned and a cut of the money (a taste to wet his beak) goes to Trump?
— Stephen Moran. (@moranstephen1000.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
— Stephen Moran. (@moranstephen1000.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
