D'Souza on pardon: Trump said I had 'been screwed'

[DonViejo]

By LOUIS NELSON 06/01/2018 07:42 AM EDT

Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza said Friday that President Donald Trump told him the 2014 conviction for which he was pardoned a day earlier was “fishy” and that he had “been screwed.”

Trump announced Thursday that he had pardoned D’Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to using straw donors to make political contributions to Republican Wendy Long’s 2012 New York Senate campaign. D’Souza avoided jail time but paid a fine and served eight months in a San Diego halfway house. D’Souza said he was not expecting it when Trump called him earlier this week.

“The president said, ‘Dinesh, you’ve been a great voice for freedom.’ And he said that, ‘I got to tell you, man-to-man, you’ve been screwed.’ He goes, ‘I’ve been looking at the case. I knew from the beginning that it was fishy,’” D’Souza told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” on Friday morning. “But he said upon reviewing it he felt a great injustice had been done and that using his power he was going to rectify it, sort of clear the slate.

“And he said he just wanted me to be out there to be a bigger voice than ever defending the principles that I believe in,” D’Souza continued.

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. News Flash: We're all being screwed,

thanks to you and your pal DJT.

[Zoonart]

2. What?

“But he said upon reviewing......"

tRump doesn't "review" shit. Someone else gave him these names for pardon. Someone else did the research and brought him the names.
I'm guessing... his lawyers, after digging into celebrities who have been convicted of crimes similar to the ones his coterie has been committing and also have the extra special added spice of having been prosecuted by USDA's from NY who are on his hit list.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. We should just change the name of pardons to "Party Favors"...

[rurallib]

4. The short version: Trump lies to DD just like he lies to everyone else.

[Goodheart]

5. If Dinesh didn't commit the crime then why did he plead guilty?

[spanone]

6. so, why did the asshole plead guilty in a federal court?

[dalton99a]

8. Precisely

[NewJeffCT]

11. I know - the guy has money

so could have afforded a pricey defense attorney.

[Wwcd]

7. Gee, 'Trump' and 'Screwed' in the same sentence..

[Johonny]

9. Raise your hand if you don't think Trump knows any actual details of the case

Not a single one.

[D_Master81]

10. In telling DD to be a bigger voice

What he wants is another vocal supporter in the public arena.

[lame54]

12. D'Souza's Hillary film was a 2 hour lying hit job...

Full of lies and slander

But, at least he didn't call her the c-word

[Pope George Ringo II]

13. I freely admit I do have one qualm over the D'Souza sentence

I still have a problem with the psych counseling for an election offense. It seems like a judge making a political point rather than a justifiable point. D'Souza did the crime, and I wouldn't have had a problem with giving him prison time and some outright silly community service requirements, but it was really hard to explain the psych counseling as appropriate.