TinyBaron•

President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the prison sentence of former Iowa slaughterhouse executive Sholom Rubashkin, who was sentenced to 27 years for bank fraud and money laundering, the White House said. 

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Rubashkin, a 57-year-old father of 10 children, oversaw operations at Agriprocessors, a large kosher meatpacking plant owned by his father in the northern Iowa town of Postville. The plant was raided by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in May 2008, leading to the arrests of nearly 400 Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants who were living and working in the country without authorization.

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Robert Teig, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the northern district of Iowa who was involved in the prosecution early on, called the commutation political, describing it as the result of a campaign of false information. Rubashkin was likely the largest employer of illegal immigrants at the time in Iowa, Teig said. He asserted the commutation was "180-degrees" from a get-tough approach on illegal immigration. 

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Bricktop72:flag-tx: Texas•

That deserves it's own post.

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StarWarsMonopoly:flag-ca: California•

Yeah we need to upvote this to the top.

This is why I come here, theres always way more info/research in the comments than some of these articles.

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TinyBaron•

Truth. Media is appallingly bad at real news.

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Hayes4prezKentucky•

"[Rubashkin] couldn’t win legally, factually or morally, so he had to win politically," Teig, 66, of Cedar Rapids, told the Register. "It’s sad when politics interferes with the justice system."

I just thought that was a great quote as well.

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ubix:flag-ia: Iowa•

Why is Trump soft on terrorism?

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HonoredPeople:flag-mo: Missouri•

Soft on white terrorism. EXTREMELY hard (like hellfire extreme) on Brown, Black or any other nationality. Possibly women and childern as well.

Ugh. I have never felt so bad for being a white male in America. Trump makes me feel dirty.

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ubix:flag-ia: Iowa•

And any expert on terrorism will tell you that he’s going about it exactly the wrong way

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HonoredPeople:flag-mo: Missouri•

Yep. So goes the nation of equality for all. That's what the republicans are destroying. Freedom, equality and the American way of life.

All because of some pro-birth nutcases.

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magenta_14dy•

It's about domination and control. Pro lifers are simply a means to an end.

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foldingcouch:flag-cn: Canada•

Why are we still acting surprised when the GOP does something that supports white nationalism?

They have white nationalists running for public office under the GOP banner. Trump was endorsed by the KKK. They've been hyper-aggressively deporting anyone with a darker complexion than Toby Keith for the entirety of the administration. They shut down the FBI division that tracks white nationalist terrorism.

It's like America woke up in the middle of the night and found Trump and Stephen Miller in its livingroom, lifting its TV out a broken window, and Trump just says "we're not stealing your TV" and America replies "well okay, but this looks pretty suspicious. I'm going to go back to bed and hope my TV is still there in the morning."

The GOP is near-enough-as-makes-no-difference a white nationalist party. Quit acting like there's anything else going on here.

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rikki-tikki-deadly:flag-ca: California•

Soft on terrorism? He actively encourages it.

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Cause he gets hard on imprisoned children.

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Tell me something I dont know

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great people, yada yaDA. this is insane.

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inthemix8080•

He and the Republicans need their racist votes.

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HandSack135:flag-md: Maryland•

Got to build up his brownshirts

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PostingHelpsOregon•

You're just shit-posting to get some quick karma.

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So are you but negative

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ubix:flag-ia: Iowa•

I don’t give a shit about the karma. I think Trump is a danger to democracy

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PostingHelpsOregon•

I think Trump is a danger to democracy

Worst. Hitler. Ever.

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ubix:flag-ia: Iowa•

Don’t you have a pizza parlor to surveil?

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mega553•

Trump is a terrorist

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magenta_14dy•

He's threatened people in public. Said he's above the law. Disrupted the rule of law. Legislated via executive order and memo. I pretty much think him and everyone in his administration liable for every death, hate crime, and act of terrorism towards a minority since the election.

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skynotfallnow:flag-tx: Texas•

The fucked up thing is I read somewhere that you must be polite to police for them to not give you shit but every customer service stays relatively calm even while being threatened. Police seem to have the lowest restrain and openly kill people for making them just feel uncomfortable.

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juanzy•

It makes my blood boil when I see a post of "we need to teach these blacks to follow rules and maybe they wouldn't end up dead! Sorry not sorry just tellin it like it is!" Yah, go to a country festival and see how many people talk back, then how many of them end up hurt or dead.

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B4K5c7N•

It irritates me too. Complete double standards.

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HonoredPeople:flag-mo: Missouri•

Another sign that Trump will pardon any republican from his party, while the liberals pay the price.

Is there question here people? This is what evil looks like. Remember it, remember it everyday of your life.

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7yearlurkernowposter:flag-mo: Missouri•

White privilege isn't real guys see!

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B4K5c7N•

This is like literal affirmative action...

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BrightPlastic•

To be fair, since Donald Trump funded the IRA he is a terrorist himself.

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Friendly_NorthKorean:flag-ga: Georgia•

Use the correct title.

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Kruger_Smoothing•

Seems pretty accurate. A better one would be “Trump pardons white terrorist “.

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bullintheheather•

Doesn't matter, sub rules are use the title of the article.

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freshwordsalad•

It's gonna be taken down because the title doesn't match.

I was surprised when I saw the headline because I didn't think the Tribune would use that word.

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thisismyaccountguy•

Pardoning these terrorists, and pushing the FBI to investigate "black identity activism" more heavily.

Testing drugs on prisoners. Using them for slave labor

Taking children from parents, and "losing" them.

It's really starting to look like they're just plain Nazis.

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theLusitanian•

It's about right since he decided he wants to terrorize the entire planet because this country thought having a woman following a black man for president was a grave sin.

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saint_abyssal•

this country

A minority of this country.

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theLusitanian•

Very true.

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Taco_Trucker•

Imagine if these guys set fire to lands where DAPL was being built. Would they see the light of day again?

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Vinny_Cerrato•

Yeah because they are white.

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Randy_Watson•

By this logic, if I feel like I'm a communist, I should be able to set fire to anyone's house. It's technically my property as much as it is their's.

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Rev_Beaker•

Not the title.

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petgreg•

The crime is less relevant than the skin color.

You want gun control? Arm black, Mexican, and Muslim local militias. Watch the NRA squirm.

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RightSideBlind•

Without even reading the article: "They're white, aren't they?"

Sigh.

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Mitchy2Spoons•

It's never been more clear that "law and order" is nothing but a dog whistle to the GOP, the party of white supremacy.

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JijiLV29•

To outrage Democrats so we take our eyes off the SCOTUS judge fight.

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Donald already has fucking up Nato and grabbing the queens pussy lined up for that this week

This was just to help him get off while his daughter is on the rag

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sexycastic•

This is the correct headline even if it's not right.

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cool--•

arm up liberals. Tyranny is here. pay attention to what is happening, and stop assuming things will get better just because.

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MyFellowMerkins•

No no, they are terrierists.

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