And so begins the deluge of a criminal president's pardons of his criminal friends: The self-confessed liar to the FBI, Putin collaborator and "Lock her up" Michael Flynn is, as of today, now invulnerable to having to pay any price for his felonious misdeeds, while thousands of non-violent federal inmates must languish in prison year after year.
But what a perfectly appropriate ending — the beginning of an ending, that is — to the most corrupt presidential administration in American political history. More execrable pardons to come. All of them also perfectly predictable.
The top knot of Trump's decadence and butchery of American decency will, quite naturally, arrive in the style of his own pardon. For there is no obscenity too abhorrent for the likes of this granddaddy of all grifting, belly-crawling sons of bitches.
Well done, Mr. Trump. You're leaving just as you came in. We expected nothing less.