Bribe-For-Pardon Scheme

Unsealed tonight, a heavily-redacted indictment over a bribe-for-pardon scheme issued in August.

It is so redacted that we don't know exactly who is being indicted.

Could be Rudy Giuliani.

Could be William Barr.

Ya gotta love it.

And then you see crap like this.

The reasonable case for a Trump self-pardon

Huh.  Rachel reports tonite on an article published today by Andrew Weissmann, who was a lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, and the lead prosecutor on Paul Manafort's trial.  He says the Trump pardons of Manafort's and Flynn and Stone and others are written such -- pardoning them for the crimes for which they were convicted -- that these gentlemen could easily be RETRIED for crimes to which they admitted in court, but were not actually convicted of.  In other words, they're still on the hook.  And their admissions of guilt are part of the court records, so their trials would be slam dunks.

I hope the federal prosecutors see the same thing Weissmann sees, and move ahead with due haste, and lock these cocksuckers up again.