Would you buy a used car from this man?
Or from this hail-fellow-well-met?
Nor would Trump. But to them he has passed out pardons; two more political associates, Elliott Broidy and Steve Bannon, in the poisonous vein of Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
And so Trump dots the final i of his iniquity. (We think. He still has nearly three hours to go.)
Last year Broidy, a Trump fundraiser who also knowingly evaded foreign lobbying laws, pleaded guilty — the second time since 2009 he has confessed to a felony — for having conspired to extradite a Chinese dissident to his tormentors and for seeking to have embezzlement charges dropped against a wealthy Malaysian scammer. Piratical parrots of a feather. Bannon, much like Trump, swindled donors to a border wall — yep, these idiots were funding a construction project that Mexico, as Trump had promised, was to pay for.
In some countries, pardons can be revoked. Would that they could be here. Some measure of justice could be obtained by permitting Broidy and Bannon's theirs in exchange for cancelling Trump's clemency for four Blackwater goons who murdered 14 Iraqi citizens. Perhaps the twosome's pardons will help to convict the pardoner in the Senate. But there can be no justification whatsoever for letting cold-blooded killers off the hook.