{"id":45705,"date":"2020-12-23T03:33:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T03:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45705"},"modified":"2020-12-23T03:34:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T03:34:01","slug":"an-abuse-of-power-yes-most-certainly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45705","title":{"rendered":"An abuse of power? Yes, most certainly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23pardonpower%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t dignify the individuals who tonight received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump by printing their names here.<\/p>\n<p>They are four contractors who, while working in Iraq during a war, committed war crimes by killing men, women and children. They were tried extensively by federal officials. They were convicted of those crimes and sentenced to prison.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump today pardoned them, set them free in exercising his full presidential pardon power as prescribed in the U.S. Constitution. I don\u2019t question that Trump has the power to exercise that provision. I do question why he would pardon four men who were convicted of murdering innocent victims.<\/p>\n<p>We have just witnessed a supreme abuse of power. Donald Trump, I dare say, has committed what could be considered an impeachable offense. It is sickening in the extreme.<\/p>\n<p>We have 29 days to go before this madman leaves office. My goodness. Donald Trump is an evil despot.<\/p>\n<p>Just think of the hideous miscarriages of justice that could be offered up prior to Trump&#8217;s departure from the Oval office.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23pardonpower%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I won\u2019t dignify the individuals who tonight received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump by printing their names here. They are four contractors who, while working in Iraq during a war, committed war crimes by killing men, women and children. They were tried extensively by federal officials. They were convicted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An abuse of power? Yes, most certainly<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,9580],"class_list":["post-45705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-pardon-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45707,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45705\/revisions\/45707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}