presidential pardons

When He Isn’t Passing the Buck Trump Is Selling Pardons and Selling Out America

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump has turned the Resolute Desk into the Excuse Desk, dodging blame while auctioning off pardons, rewarding crooks, and selling out America to foreign strongmen. iPINIONS argues that, from Saudi blood money to Honduran narco-politics to get-out-of-jail cards for wealthy swindlers, Trump’s presidency is now a pay-to-betray operation. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/when-he-isnt-passing-the-buck-trump Read more.

Trump Can Recast Jan 6 Pardons by Pardoning Roman Polanski

Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Roman Polanski has spent decades in artistic exile for raping a child. But now that Trump is pardoning Jan 6 insurrectionists, iPINIONS asks: why stop there? If celebrity worship still trumps justice, why not pardon Polanski too? You know, before it’s too late for Hollywood to give him the standing ovation it’s been holding for… Read more.

UPDATE: Trump and the Poisoned Chalice of the Pardon Power

Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at 8:37 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Washington is abuzz this morning with speculation about Trump pardoning Cohen and Manafort. He has the absolute power to do so, of course. And he willfully laid the predicate for pardoning undeserving criminals like these when he pardoned defiantly racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona. Except that, far from protecting Trump from impeachment, doing so… Read more.