Federal Judge Calls Trump A Criminal In AP Interview

The Associated Press reports:

A federal judge in Iowa who has warned against political corruption is ridiculing President Donald Trump’s pardons, including those issued to convicted Republican campaign operatives and former members of Congress.

“It’s not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals,” senior U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt of the Southern District of Iowa told The Associated Press in a brief phone interview Monday. In a bit of humor, he said: “But apparently to get a pardon, one has to be either a Republican, a convicted child murderer or a turkey.”

Pratt was referring to pardons Trump granted to his former campaign aides convicted during the special counsel’s Russia inquiry, former GOP congressmen who committed crimes, and security contractors convicted of killing innocent civilians in Iraq.

Read the full article. Pratt is a Clinton appointee.

Federal judge holds nothing back with the AP, via @Matt_Naham https://t.co/SD4uYvVBwb via @lawcrimenews

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 29, 2020