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Trump’s commutation of George Santos’s prison sentence was a blatant favor to a disgraced ally who had already become a national punchline, and it landed like a middle finger to the basic idea that fraud should have consequences. The move instantly reopened criticism of Trump’s use of executive power as a reward system for political loyalists.
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Trump’s commutation of George Santos’s prison sentence was a blatant favor to a disgraced ally who had already become a national punchline, and it landed like a middle finger to the basic idea that fraud should have consequences. The move instantly reopened criticism of Trump’s use of executive power as a reward system for political loyalists.
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Trump’s commutation of George Santos’s prison sentence was a blatant favor to a disgraced ally who had already become a national punchline, and it landed like a middle finger to the basic idea that fraud should have consequences. The move instantly reopened criticism of Trump’s use of executive power as a reward system for political loyalists.
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