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On Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:39:29 +0000,  Lee says...  

> Trump pardons a nursing home scoundrel 
> who cheated and neglected Arkansans

I bet Bill Clinton's happy for 2 reasons.

1) Trump helping out a fellow Arkansan

2) He won't feel so bad for pardoning these fraudsters

Melvin Reynolds - a fellow Clinton Democrat, was a congressman from Illinois 
who was serving time in prison for SEXUAL ASSAULT, obstruction of justice and 
SOLICITATION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. Near the end of his 5-year sentence on 
those charges, he was convicted of bank fraud and received a sentence to serve 
78 additional months. 

President Clinton commuted the BANK FRAUD sentence and arranged for him to 
serve time at a halfway house. Reynolds had not requested a presidential 
pardon and none was granted. Many criticized Clinton for arranging for 
leniency because the sex charges had stemmed from REYNOLDS' SEXUAL 
RELATIONSHIP WITH A 16-YEAR-OLD CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEER.

Some of the Most Controversial Clinton Presidential Pardons

Bill Clinton granted clemency to 140 last-minute pardons that were issued 
during his final hours in office. Some were so controversial, a federal 
prosecutor was appointed to investigate. 

Susan McDougal, a business partner of Bill and Hilary Clinton, served 18 
months in prison for her involvement in the Whitewater scandal. She was 
charged with contempt of court for refusing to testify about the Clintons' 
role in the scandal. President Clinton granted her a pardon after she had 
completed her sentence causing many to claim it was his way of paying her back 
for protecting him during the investigation.

Harvey Weinig was a Manhattan lawyer who pleaded guilty to laundering $19 
million made from illegal drug sales by Colombian drug traffickers. Weinig 
told the sentencing judge, "There is no avoiding the fact that I engaged in 
serious illegal conduct for which there is no excuse." The judge sentenced him 
to the highest sentence allowed, 11 years and 3 months. Clinton commuted that 
sentence after Weinig had only served 5 years and 270 days The Weinig clemency 
case received much criticism in the press including the TIME magazine article 
titled, "Bill, How Low Can You Go?" Weinig was related to a White House 
staffer.

Another eleventh-hour pardon that ignited a firestorm of controversy was 
granted to Marc Rich, who was indicted for evading $48 million in taxes and 
illegal oil deals with Iran during the time Iran was holding US hostages. He 
had fled to Switzerland and was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. 
Rich's attorney made the pardon application directly to the White House 
instead of going through the normal channels at the Office of the Pardon 
Attorney. Much of the controversy involves large donations made by Rich's ex-
wife to the Clinton campaign and the Clinton Presidential Library. The pardon 
was met with outrage from both sides of the Congressional aisle.

The most criticized and publicly alarming clemency of the Clinton 
administration was the pardon of 16 members of the FALN, a violent Puerto 
Rican terrorist group that set off 120 bombs in the United States. The FALN 
was responsible for 6 deaths and injuries to many others, including law 
enforcement officers. The FALN members that were in jail were not convicted of 
harming anyone but were sentenced on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery, 
bomb-making, sedition, and firearms and explosives violations. Many groups 
lobbied for President Clinton to deny clemency, including the FBI, the 
Fraternal Order of Police and the victims of the FALN bombings. However, 
Clinton yielded to requests from the Archbishop of Puerto Rico and the 
Cardinal of New York for clemency for all 16 of the terrorists. At the time of 
the sentence commutations, Hillary Clinton went on record in support of the 
President's actions but later, during her campaign for the Senate, she 
withdrew her support.

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The fraudsters:

Wanda Kaye Bain-Prentice - Mail fraud

Kristine Margo Beck - Bank embezzlement

David Christopher Billmaier - Possession with intent to distribute 
amphetamines

Joe Carol Bruton - Conspiracy to commit mail fraud

Nolan Lynn DeMarce - Making false statements to obtain bank loans

Jimmy C. Dick - Conspiracy to manufacture counterfeit Federal Reserve notes

Edward Eugene Dishman - Conspiracy to defraud the United States and Oklahoma

Albert James Forte - Making and subscribing false and fraudulent income tax 
return

Billy Joe Gilmore - Mail fraud and aiding and abetting 

Jackie Lee Miller - Conspiracy to defraud the U.S.

Mary Louise Oaks - Conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to claims

Mary Louise Oaks - Conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to claims

Robert Paul Padelsky - Misapplication of bank funds

Elizabeth Amy Peterson - Conspiracy to make false statements to bank

Susan Lauranne Prather - Causing marijuana to be transported through the mail

Gary Lynn Quammen - Misapplication of bank funds

Elizabeth Hogg Rushing - Misapplication of bank funds

Diane Dorothea Smunk - Embezzlement by government employee

Kathleen Vacanti - Conspiracy to defraud the United States by obtaining 
payment of false claims, presenting false claims to the United States, forging 
a writing, and aiding and abetting

Pupi White - Making false statement on United States passport application

Bradley Vaughn Barisic - Making false statement to National Labor Relations 
Board

Patricia Ann Chapin - Falsifying prescription for controlled substance

Margaret Mary Marks - Willful misapplication of bank funds

John Richard Martin - Embezzlement of funds from savings and loan association

Shirley Jean Odoms - Filing false claim for tax refund

Gordon Roberts Jr. - Interstate transportation of forged and falsely made 
securities

Irving Frank Avery - Possession of counterfeit plates

Billy K. Berry - Medicaid and mail fraud

Ralph Wallace Crawford - Mail fraud

Monroe Lee King - Making plates for counterfeiting Federal Reserve notes

George Edward Maynes Jr. - Distribution of cocaine

Charley Morgan - Unlawful possession of still and manufacture of mash

Anita Glenn Whitlock - Bank embezzlement

Larry Edward Winfield - Mail fraud

Meredith Marcus Appleton, II - Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 
cocaine and to distribute cocaine 

Elizabeth Marie Frederick (aka Elizabeth Sigmon) - Distribution and possession 
with intent to distribute cocaine 

Jodie David Moreland - Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 
marijuana 

Daniel Larry Thomas Jr. - Illegal use of a communication facility to 
distribute cocaine

Virgil Edwin West - Mail fraud

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has 
been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the 
point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the 
Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or 
stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The 
president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were 
all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's 
vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of 
hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from 
reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk 
opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump 
announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would 
suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. 
There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be 
received positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 
2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-
night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first 
coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003. 
The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in 
otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - 
the very existence of George W. Bush."