{"id":169991,"date":"2025-05-29T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=169991"},"modified":"2025-05-28T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:13:44","slug":"a-few-trump-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=169991","title":{"rendered":"A few Trump observations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since our resident Commissar has gone over the President’s Memorial Day Truth Social post in such detail, let’s try to somewhat more rationally look at a few other things. From West Point:<\/p>\n

That includes the first two women in West Point history to complete Diver School; cadets Megan Cooper and Clara Sebu. Where are you? Stand up. Where are they? Wow. Great job. That is not easy. Congratulations, Megan, Clara. That’s a job well done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thought we weren’t recognizing DEI-type firsts?<\/p>\n

Actually I think we should recognize folks exceeding all expectations – remember when we railed against idiots removing Enola ‘Gay’ references, Tuskegee Airman history, etc?<\/p>\n

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And we had years and years of recruiting shortfalls, and just last year was the worst of all, the last year of the Biden administration. We couldn’t get anybody to join our military.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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A bit tone deaf to say we couldn’t get anyone to join our military to a class which joined and went to West Point – four years ago. Too, tone-deafness is always been one of Trump’s dominant characteristics.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I was investigated more than the great late Alphonse Capone.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Great late? He tends to describe almost anyone as “great”, such as Putin or Kim, who would seem like dubious choices. But at least in this case he followed by describing Capone as a ‘monster.’<\/div>\n
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And we weren’t even thought about, nobody had a Victory Day, and so I named that special day and another special day from now on as a holiday, but a holiday where we work because we don’t have enough days.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We’re going to be having so many holidays, we’re not going to be able to work anymore. But I named it for World War II, and a separate day in November, as you know, for World War I.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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What the rest of us recognize as V-E Day and Armistice Day\/Veteran’s Day. Been done, sir…and V-E Day didn’t end WWII except in Europe. A few million Japanese disagreed, at least until August.<\/div>\n
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We won the Second World War right here from West Point. And that’s something, and we’re gonna be talking about it. You know, they can talk about it, and in some cases, as you know, they didn’t do too much to help. They were ground down, but they were celebrating victory. No, we’re gonna celebrate victory because we’re the ones that won that war.\u00a0 Roll Call<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Has he never read a history book? Know anything about all those other countries with whom we fought?<\/div>\n
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Relatively mild stuff, true. But other than mild inaccuracies, this wasn’t an outrageously bad speech.<\/div>\n
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Now I do question recent pardons. Perhaps someone from the Virginia area\u00a0 can show me the error of my ways?<\/div>\n
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President Donald Trump has pardoned a sheriff from Virginia \u2014 who happens to be a stalwart MAGA supporter \u2014 after his conviction of accepting more than $75,000 in bribes.<\/p>\n

Trump announced the pardon in a Truth Social post on Monday.<\/p>\n

He declared that former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins would receive a “full and unconditional” pardon in the Memorial Day social media missive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Said sheriff was convicted of bribery, corruption, and fraud in December, and was alleged to have taken $75,000 in bribes.<\/p>\n

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Prior to losing an election in 2023 for the sheriff\u2019s job, Jenkins had been Culpeper County’s top law enforcement officer for more than a decade.<\/p>\n

That long career fell apart after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia brought allegations against Jenkins accusing him of taking tens of thousands of dollars worth of bribes in exchange for appointing businessmen from Northern Virginia as auxiliary sheriffs. The businessmen reportedly weren’t interested in enforcing the law, but rather skirting traffic tickets and carrying concealed guns without the need for a permit, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Officials said that none of the men who paid for the positions were trained for the roles, or vetted, and none ever rendered any kind of law enforcement service to the sheriff’s department.\u00a0 The Independent<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not every DOJ conviction is political. I’d sure like to see how this conviction was a political witch-hunt (Trump’s view) and what makes this guy worth pardoning OTHER than the MAGA conviction? Did he buy multiple seats at Trump’s memecoin dinner? This seems to be some Biden-level stuff here.<\/p>\n

And we get to the Chrisleys…reality-TV darlings of “Chrisley Knows Best” were convicted of defrauding banks of tens of millions of dollars in a prosecution started by a Trump appointed DOJ prosecutor.<\/p>\n

Todd Chrisley was sentenced to 12 years in prison in November 2022 after an Atlanta jury found him guilty of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States. His wife was sentenced to seven years in prison for the same crimes.\u00a0NBC News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or there is Larry Hoover, whose Federal life sentence was commuted. Head of crime family Gangster Disciples, he has been in SuperMax for 20 years, they say. He had to be transferred there since he was allegedly communicating with, and running, his old gang from Illinois prison. Larry says he is reformed. Bet everyone else in SuperMax would say the same. Why give him ANY\u00a0 pardon?<\/p>\n

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Hoover\u2019s attorneys, meanwhile, have claimed that decades behind bars have left him a changed man and that prosecutors have unfairly painted him as a puppet master to try to keep him locked up.<\/p>\n

At a hearing last year, U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey asked Hoover\u2019s defense attorney point-blank: \u201cHow many other murders is he responsible for?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what the methodology is for determining that,\u201d attorney Jennifer Bonjean replied, somewhat taken aback by the unusually blunt query.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many we can\u2019t count?\u201d Blakey shot back.\u00a0Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Not sure what it takes to get a judge to ask that kind of question, but it seems doubtful “reformed” has much to do with it.<\/p>\n

So why all these pardons?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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