On that note, read a very intersting article from the NZ Herald...... Trump offers pardons to a major Republican donor and violators of the Clean Air Act All of those pardoned were convicted of violations related to the Clean Air Act, a landmark air pollution regulation passed in 1963. Many in the group were found to have tampered with emissions control equipment in vehicles, or to have sold parts to bypass the controls in violation of the Clean Air Act. Margo Oge, a former director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality at the US Environmental Protection Agency, said: “These pardons don’t just forgive a paperwork violation - they reward people who ran businesses stripping pollution controls off diesel trucks for profit”. Trump, who pledged during the campaign to crack down on the illegal flow of deadly drugs coming across the border, also granted clemency to several individuals convicted for drug-related crimes, including Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, Baltimore drug kingpin Garnett Gilbert Smith and former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez. The day he was inaugurated for a second term, Trump pardoned most January 6 defendants - a sweeping action that granted clemency to more than 1500 convicted in connection with the riot at the US Capitol in 2021, including those who assaulted police officers. Trump is rotten to the core and dishing out pardons to those involved in the Jan 6 Capitol Hill riot is/should be a crime in and of itself. Wake up America, the clown, con man, thief and rapist is enriching himself, his family and cohorts at the expense of America's reputation and the everyday worker, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/trump-offers-pardons-to-a-major-republican-donor-and-violators-of-the-clean-air-act/FIEHJM4BA5FHRJI3SWBWNCRH4Q/
