D’Souza pleaded guilty in 2014 to violating campaign finance laws
with an illegal donation to a GOP Senate candidate.
Trump announced the pardon in a tweet, claiming D’Souza “was
treated very unfairly by our government.”
Trump believes that D’Souza was “a victim of selective
prosecution for violations of campaign finance laws,” according to a statement
from the White House explaining the pardon.
D’Souza is famous for his right-wing
conspiratorial documentaries, as well as a long history of offensive
comments, from smearing the survivors of the Parkland school shooting
earlier this year to regularly making racist
remarks about President
Barack Obama.
All of Trump’s presidential pardons have been outside
the standard process for issuing pardons run by the Department of
Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney.
He pardoned a former Navy sailor, Kristian Saucier, after
Saucier made his case on Trump’s favorite TV network, Fox News.
In August, Trump pardoned right-wing, anti-immigrant sheriff
Joe
Arpaio. Arpaio was found guilty for criminal contempt after violating
a federal judge’s order instructing him to stop racially profiling Latino
drivers, whom he and his office regularly rounded up because he suspected them
of being undocumented immigrants.
The president also issued a pardon for Scooter
Libby, who was convicted for lying and obstructing justice after the
leak of then-covert CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity.
Last week, the president issued a posthumous pardon to boxing
champion Jack Johnson, which came at the recommendation of actor Sylvester
Stallone.
Trump said recently on Air Force One that he’s considering
issuing pardons or commuting sentences for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
(D) and cook and TV personality Martha Stewart. Blagojevich was on Trump’s
“Celebrity Apprentice” TV series, and Stewart hosted “The Apprentice: Martha
Stewart,” a spinoff of Trump’s “The Apprentice” series.
Obviously, Present Trump does not believe that any
underprivileged men or women, or people of color who are not famous or right leaning have been
treated unfairly by their government.
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