{"id":175563,"date":"2021-01-20T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/20\/as-he-was-leaving\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T23:53:00","slug":"as-he-was-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/20\/as-he-was-leaving\/","title":{"rendered":"As He Was Leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his way out the door, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/who-did-trump-pardon.html?action=click&amp;module=Spotlight&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">Donald Trump issued about 70 pardons and a similar number of commutations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the usual suspects, people who might testify against him and Jared&#8217;s dad, we do have some mild surprises:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Randall &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham, whose corruption was legendary. (He literally had a menu of bribes)<\/li>\n<li>Steve Bannon. probably because he knows where the bodies are buried.<\/li>\n<li>Kwame Kilpatrick,(D) who got 28 years for rampant corruption as Mayor of Detroit.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A bunch of entertainers.<\/li>\n<li>Aviem Sella, Jonathan Pollard&#8217;s handler for Israel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these are much of a surprise, except perhaps Kilpatrick.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has now slithered out of the White House, so that should be the end of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his way out the door, Donald Trump issued about 70 pardons and a similar number of commutations. Along with the usual suspects, people who might testify against him and Jared&#8217;s dad, we do have some mild surprises: Randall &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham, whose corruption was legendary. (He literally had a menu of bribes) Steve Bannon. probably &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,573,407,454],"class_list":["post-175563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-justice","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}