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Indicted By Clinton, Then Pardoned By Clinton?

One notable instance during Bill Clinton's presidency involved his friend, 
Marc Rich, and Rich's ex-wife, Denise Rich. Marc Rich was a financier who had 
been convicted of tax evasion and other charges.

In 1990, Marc Rich was convicted of tax evasion and other charges. In 2001, 
President Bill Clinton granted a presidential pardon to Marc Rich, on the 
recommendation of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton and others, including 
Attorney General Janet Reno, and after receiving a request from Israeli Prime 
Minister Ehud Barak, as Rich had made large donations to the Democratic Party 
and was also an Israeli citizen.

It is also worth noting that there was another instance involving James B. 
McDougal, a close friend and former business partner of the Clintons, and his 
wife Susan McDougal. James McDougal died in prison in 1997 while serving a 
sentence for his role in the Whitewater controversy. His wife, Susan, was also 
convicted and served time.

President Clinton did not pardon Susan McDougal immediately after her 
conviction. However, in 2001, outgoing President Clinton did commute the 
sentence of Susan McDougal.

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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."