Donald Trump To Pardon Dinesh D’Souza, Campaign Finance Lawbreaker

May 31, 2018

President Donald Trump has tweeted that he’ll grant a full pardon to conservative author/filmmaker and federal campaign finance law violator Dinesh D’Souza. “He was treated very unfairly by our government!” Trump tweeted by way of explanation.

Shortly after Trump’s tweet, D’Souza took his moment in the twitter spotlight to plug his upcoming movie. His best-known movie, the 2012 documentary 2016: Obama’s America, was panned by critics, with Entertainment Weekly calling it “nothing more than an insidious attempt to dishonestly smear the President [Obama] by giving intellectual cover to the worst in subterranean conspiracy theories and false, partisan attacks.”

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— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) May 31, 2018

D’Souza pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance laws in 2014. The perpetual Clinton & Obama foe had earlier been indicted for illegally using straw donors to make financial contributions to New York Republican senate candidate Wendy Long.

Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D’Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 31, 2018

D’Souza was sentenced to five years of probation and fined $30,000.

The presidential pardon drew a quick and concise analysis from Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, who called the move “obstruction”:

Trump’s Dinesh D’Souza pardon today, on top of his pardons of Scooter Libby and Joe Arpaio, make sense only as an elephant-whistle to Michael Cohen & all who know damning things about Trump: protect me & I’ll have your back. Turn on me & your goose is cooked. More obstruction!

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 31, 2018

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