Maddow: Time For Warnings Is Past As Trump Openly Abuses Power | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
"THIS IS HOW DEMOCRACY DIES - IN FULL VIEW OF A PUBLIC THAT COULDN'T CARE LESS"
• Feb 22, 2020
MSNBC
12:51 - Rachel Maddow points out that it is no longer accurate to frame Donald Trump's corruption as imminent or potential as he is openly abusing his power to make it clear that the power of the U.S. government will be used to punish people who oppose him and help people who demonstrate fealty. Aired on 02/21/20.
Nixon directed the IRS to audit every Democrat up for reelection. Plus activists, journalists, whoever indicated opposition to Nixon. Trump fund raiser leads to pardon. Continues to fire many top people for taking measures, or saying things which Trump doesn't like.
Trump Grants Clemency to Blagojevich, Milken and Kerik
The president also pardoned or commuted the sentences of eight others on Tuesday, including Edward DeBartolo, a former owner of the San Francisco 49ers.
Rod R. Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, on the second day of his sentencing hearing in 2011. Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press
By Michael D. Shear and Maggie Haberman
Published Feb. 18, 2020 Updated Feb. 19, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Trump, citing what he said was advice from friends and business associates, granted clemency on Tuesday to a who’s who of white-collar criminals from politics, sports and business who were convicted on charges involving fraud, corruption and lies — including the financier Michael R. Milken.