The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

Russia just keeps winning.

Divided we stand united we fall.

 

You can't spell "Hatred" without "Red Hat"

DD

 

****'s getting real...

 

an unhappy canadian?

 

@fchowd0311

 

Rocket River

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/us/politics/trump-pardon-czar.html?smid=url-share

Trump may name Alice Johnson, whom he once pardoned, to be his ‘pardon czar.’
Feb. 18, 2025, 5:25 p.m. ET22 minutes ago
Erica L. Green and Maggie Haberman
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Alice Marie Johnson at the White House in 2020. In 2018, President Trump issued a commutation to Ms. Johnson, who had been locked up in an Alabama federal prison since 1996.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times

President Trump’s advisers are considering Alice Marie Johnson, who was serving a life sentence for a drug conviction when the president commuted her sentence during his first term, to be the “pardon czar,” according to three people familiar with the discussions.

It was not immediately clear what the role would entail, but Ms. Johnson, at the end of Mr. Trump’s first term, said she wanted to work on behalf of people she believed should be considered for clemency.

Ms. Johnson’s appointment has not been finalized, and like many things in Mr. Trump’s world, plans could change. When reached by phone, Ms. Johnson declined to comment. A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

Ms. Johnson, whose case was originally brought to Mr. Trump’s attention by Kim Kardashian, has become a vocal supporter of the president. Some of Mr. Trump’s advisers see her as being politically helpful to him over the years; during the 2020 presidential race, the Trump campaign featured her in a Super Bowl ad in an effort to reach Black voters.

Still, her case, and the new role of “pardon czar,” show how Mr. Trump’s approach to criminal justice reform is rife with contradictions. He signed the bipartisan First Step Act, which aimed to reduce prison sentences for certain nonviolent drug crimes, during his first term, then told advisers privately soon afterward that he regretted it, according to multiple officials working with him at the time.

During his 2024 campaign, he called for shooting thieves who steal from drugstores and for the death penalty for drug traffickers and dealers. Then, in one of his first acts as president in his second term, he issued a grant of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — violent and nonviolent alike.

Ms. Johnson’s case was seen as an example of draconian sentencing laws that disproportionately affected nonviolent offenders, particularly women and members of minority communities. Her case became a rallying cry for reform after a viral video of Ms. Johnson speaking from prison caught the attention of Ms. Kardashian.

Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was then a presidential adviser, arranged a meeting between Ms. Kardashian and Mr. Trump in May 2018 — on Ms. Johnson’s 63rd birthday — and Ms. Kardashian pleaded her case.

Mr. Trump commuted Ms. Johnson’s sentence one week later, freeing her from prison. He then issued a full pardon during his 2020 re-election campaign, which wiped the conviction from her record.

Mr. Trump’s decision faced opposition within his administration and among some allies.

Ms. Johnson had been locked up in an Alabama federal prison since 1996 after being sentenced to life plus 25 years in prison as a first-time, nonviolent offender. She had been charged with cocaine possession and money laundering in a drug conspiracy case.

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A single mother of five in Memphis, she had a history of gambling, unemployment, bankruptcy and foreclosure before becoming involved in a drug ring. She was arrested in 1993 as part of an operation that transported cocaine from Houston to Memphis, relaying coded messages between conspirators.

She also purchased a house with a down payment that she structured with three separate money orders under the $10,000 reporting limit. Under mandatory sentencing rules, she was given a life term without parole, even though she had never sold drugs. Several co-defendants who testified against her were sentenced to probation or terms of up to 10 years.

Ms. Johnson had served two decades of the sentence, during which she became a grandmother and great-grandmother, took educational and vocational programs, volunteered to help sick and dying prisoners, and helped coordinate the prison’s Special Olympics.

Mr. Trump cited Ms. Johnson’s case, among others, at the signing ceremony for the First Step Act.

“Alice Johnson — I let her out. She was in jail for 22 years. She had another 28 years. And the crime was, let’s say — I think most of you would agree — was not worthy of a 50-year term in prison,” he said.

“And she came out, and I’ll never forget the look on her face,” Mr. Trump said, going on to describe watching her be embraced by her family. “I said, what a beautiful thing that is.”

First Step was one of the most consequential criminal justice reform bills in decades. It combined new funding for anti-recidivism programs, the expansion of early-release credits for prisoners and the reduction of certain mandatory minimum sentences. The bill would help shape the experiences of tens of thousands of current inmates and future offenders. Thousands were released from federal custody after its passage.

In a November 2024 television interview, Ms. Johnson said that after her release she personally submitted over 100 petitions to the White House after Mr. Trump asked her to compile a list of people she believed deserved clemency.

“I’m so blessed to be free myself,” she said. “The work continues. I can’t help but advocate for people who are incarcerated, because I’m really one of them. I’m just a free one of them.”​

 

Intriguing

Rocket River
Let's seer what this brings

 

I thought Trump was going to bring down inflation?

 

Always remember the dumbest individuals are those morons who blindly trusts what a billionaire tells them which is no surprise the MAGA cultists



Dumbest cult of all time

 

DJT stole Mexicos national treasure, The Gulf of Mexico.
He is taking Greenland
He is treating a 1st world nations leader like a literal toddler and threatening to take his country away from him.
Now Texas is taking a national treasure from Kentucky. Florida and Texas will run this country like California and NY used to.

 

When I first started posting in this section you were one of the more intelligent posters here who i respected. You then started to use Twitter and your brain completely melted to where it is today.

Its honestly sad watching folks become braindead bcz of twitter use.

 

Next you will criticize the DOGE dividend. Winners keep winning, losers keep blaming refs.

 

I'm just not a dumbass like yourself. Eliminating the cfpb will cause more harm to every day Americans than whatever "fraud" they find which they havnt found. This is what billionaires do. They think you're too dumb not to notice how they are dismantling the regulatory state so they can steal more money from Americans.

I sincerely feel sorry for you whenever I see you post. You were at once a intelligent poster who actually posted real substance

 

@Tomstro @Space Ghost how come you ignore actual corruption in front of you? The FDA has over 20k+ employees but somehow Musk fired those 20 employees in charge of regulating his company neurolink?



"The firings affected the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices, which regulates brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies like Neuralink’s implant. according to the report."

 

I was talking with my mom about some "religious" Trump supporting relatives tonight. I told her I would like to see them tell these migrant peasants that are being rounded up, imprisoned, or shipped off to countries they're not even from -- like the woman in this story that apparently picked the wrong spot to try and sell tamales -- that they are illegal and that they don't deserve a chance at a better life, to support their children, or to help their loved ones back home.

My mom told me without hesitating that they would. I was shocked for a moment but, she's right. The ones we know, at least, are more than ready to do so and would probably get a kick out of it.

I bring this up because up I remember you recently challenging someone here to do something along those lines. You didn't think that person would, and maybe he or she wouldn't have the nerve, but a lot of Trumpers today would (look at that shithead @Salvy's avatar, for instance). I think, frankly, that there are a handful of people here that are capable of any number of atrocities. Sucks, too, because some of them are likable on a number of levels. But here we are...

It's a bit maddening when you realize the depths that some are capable of sinking to.

 

Watching America implode in real time is something else