In his last hour as president, Trump pardoned Jeanine Pirro's ex-husband
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In his last hour as president, Trump pardoned Jeanine Pirro's ex-husband
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Almost 12 hours after former President Donald Trump issued a raft of pardons to friends, allies, rappers, GOP lawmakers and fundraisers, and others, he slipped in one last pardon for Albert Pirro, the ex-husband of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, less than an hour before President Biden was sworn in, ABC News reports. "What was possibly Trump's final act as president reflected a recurring theme in his final months in office: delivering clemencies to scores of personal friends and political allies."
Pirro, 73, was convicted in 2000 on 34 counts of tax evasion and conspiracy for improperly deducting more than $1 million in personal expenses as tax write-offs for his New York real estate law businesses. He and Jeanine Pirro, one of Trump's favorite Fox personalities, were married at the time. Albert Pirro donated about $2,000 to Trump's 2020 campaign and the Republican National Committee, ABC News notes, citing campaign finance records.
During his tabloid-like trial, "prosecutors suggested that Albert Pirro lusted for money in much the way that Richard Nixon lusted for power," The New York Times reported in June 2000, after his guilty verdicts were handed down for Pirro and his accountant brother. "Throughout the trial, prosecutors argued that by improperly deducting $1.2 million of Albert Pirro's personal expenses as business write-offs, thereby reducing Albert Pirro's taxes by $413,000, the brothers had brazenly violated a fundamental tenet of the American tax system: that every taxpayer must pay his or her fair share, regardless of wealth or influence." Peter Weber
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Trump's last official act as president was to pardon a tax fraud criminal.
He sees himself in Albert Pirro, and also wants Judge Jeannine to keep mindlessly praising him on her Fox News show.
Trump is unethical to his last moment in office, and beyond.
ugh, you'd think being married to that old FOX skank would be punishment enough.
That crazy bitch. I swear she's drunk when she starts on her slurry crazy rants.
TRUMP - "I pardoned you."
ALBERT- "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Now I have to go home to that bitch!"
Did he donate to Trump's campaign?
From the seed.......
Hmmm, Trump's normal price has more zeros.
yeah, Marc Rich paid Clinton WAY more than that!
Democrats were cool with that, so now they can just suck it up.
Digging ever deeper for Trump bashing stories
This happened YESTERDAY Greg, its not like it is ancient news.
I think what Greg is saying is that this is a BFD story. Trump is gone and to continue to bring him or his actions/inactions into a conversation/discussion now is a bit petty and not to mention overdone. JMHO
You people still talk about Hillary Clinton.
lol, "Trump is gone".
To normal, rational people, it is not "news"
WTF is "you people"? Sweeping generalizations ...................again?
Every outgoing President gives pardons. The next day the press scrutinizes every single one and points out the ones they have problems with. There is no way anyone is going to agree with all the decisions so the President should continue doing what they all have been doing: make the decisions without worrying about what "pundits" think.
I think Trump just wanted to get Jeanine Pirro to stop nagging him. And he has a soft spot in his heart for tax cheats. He calls them "mini-me".