Washington, D.C. has been abuzz after the President pardoned Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative
political commentator.
D'Souza had been sentenced to 8 months in a halfway house, 5 years probation, and a
$30,000 fine for pleading guilty in a federal court for illegally contributing to a political
campaign.
A crime that is a felony.
However, it is not the pardon that has people talking now, what is keeping people talking
is what D'Souza did after getting the pardon.
Most people would not expect it.
D'Souza took to social media to denounce the Obama administration and stick it to the
people who punished him over the incident he was involved in.
Some may have considered the punishment quite harsh and as if it was "stuck" to him
for being Conservative.
The Washington Examiner reported:
"Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza took aim at former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara
in a pair of tweets Thursday, telling Bharara that "karma is a bitch" after D'Souza
received a pardon from President Trump.
"KARMA IS A BITCH DEPT: @PreetBharara wanted to destroy a fellow Indian American to advance
his career.
Then he got fired & I got pardoned," D'Souza tweeted.
Trump announced Thursday he pardoned D'Souza and said he was "treated very unfairly"
by the government.
Bharara served as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York when D'Souza
was charged with campaign finance fraud.
D'Souza pleaded guilty in 2014 to a federal charge of making illegal campaign contributions
to a U.S. Senate candidate, but he claimed he was forced to plead guilty by Bharara and
other federal prosecutors.
"Bharara & his goons bludgeoned me into the plea by threatening to add a second redundant
charge carrying a prison term of FIVE YEARS," D'Souza tweeted, responding to a tweet from
Bharara.
The former U.S. attorney said in his initial tweet that federal agents and prosecutors
acted appropriately.
"The President has the right to pardon but the facts are these: D'Souza intentionally
broke the law, voluntarily pled guilty, apologized for his conduct & the judge found no unfairness.
The career prosecutors and agents did their job.
Period," Bharara tweeted.
Trump fired Bharara in 2017."
One unexpected ally that D'Souza got in the process was Republican Senator from Texas
and former presidential candidate Ted Cruz.
Cruz admitted to being instrumental in organizing the pardon with the President.
Cruz also admitted to suggesting to the President to do the pardon at the National Rifle Association
convention that they both attended.
The one where the President gave the address.
The Hill reported:
"He had just pardoned Scooter Libby, who I think Scooter likewise had faced an unfair
prosecution," Cruz said, according to the Tribune.
"I think that pardon was the right thing to do, and so in the car ride, I said, 'You
know, Mr. President, another pardon very much along the same lines of Scooter Libby would
be Dinesh D'Souza, who I think was unfairly politically targeted.'
And the president agreed," he continued.
"I read the papers, I see him on television," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.
"I never met him, I called him last night, first time I've ever spoken to him, I said,
I'm pardoning you.
Nobody asked me to do it," the president said, adding that "a lot of people" agreed
with his decision."
In an opinion piece for Fox News D'Souza gave his own interpretation of what went down
and had the following to say about his pardon and his work with the President,
"My only consolation is that Bharara's whole scheme has collapsed.
He tried to destroy a fellow Indian-American's life out of naked political ambition.
Then President Trump fired him and pardoned me!
Bharara is discovering the ancient Indian wisdom contained in the modern American saying
that "karma is a bitch."
My case, alas, represents a grotesque miniature of what American politics has become.
It wasn't always this way.
President Jimmy Carter or even President Bill Clinton would no more dream of locking up
opponents like me than the Bushes would dream of locking up leftist filmmaker Michael Moore
or Rosie O'Donnell.
But with President Obama and Hillary Clinton, we've see a gangsterization of politics
in which the organs of the state – the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, the Justice
Department and so on – are deployed against ideological adversaries.
I'm glad to be out of the clutches of these nefarious characters, including the judge
appointed by President Clinton who included in my sentence mandatory psychiatric counseling.
This is a man who thought he could supervise my "re-education," which I guess would
be confirmed in his mind if I went to work for the Clinton Foundation or started making
regular appearances on MSNBC.
Eventually, to his dismay, the judge gave up on his little Stalinist project and confessed
that I could not, by his standards, be rehabilitated.
Now I'm free.
No longer does the ominous phrase, "United States of America versus Dinesh D'Souza"
ring in this immigrant's head.
My American Dream and my faith in America are now fully restored.
Thank you, President Trump, for making this happen.
Nobody should be targeted for their political beliefs, conservative or liberal.
However, that certainly appears to be the case with D'Souza.
For a party that accuses Republicans of not being able to take comedy and humor and taking
themselves to seriously what the Obama administration did by shutting D'Souza up on television
with the felony charges is quite transparent.
They tried to censor him for being anti-Obama and working for Fox News.
Something that is becoming an increasing problem.
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