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Va. AG Miyares breaks with Trump over pardon of convicted ex-Culpeper sheriff
Va. AG Miyares breaks with Trump over pardon of convicted ex-Culpeper sheriff
Markus Schmidt , Virginia Mercury
June 12, 2025, 8:02 AM
This article was reprinted with permission from Virginia Mercury.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins, saying the ex-lawman’s federal bribery conviction was well-founded and the pardon misguided.
“I have to authorize any state investigation into any elected official. And so I was aware of a lot of the facts at that time,” Miyares told The Mercury in an interview Tuesday. “Given what I know, I would not have pardoned him.”
The rare public break from Miyares, a Republican and rising star in Virginia politics who is seeking a second term this year, comes just weeks after Trump issued the controversial pardon in late May. The president portrayed Jenkins — a longtime supporter who campaigned for Trump in both 2016 and 2020 — as the victim of political persecution.
“Sheriff Scott Jenkins, his wife Patricia, and their family have been dragged through HELL,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post announcing the pardon. He blamed the case on “an overzealous Biden Department of Justice” and claimed Jenkins had been “left for dead” by “Radical Left monsters.”
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Markus Schmidt , Virginia Mercury
June 12, 2025, 8:02 AM
This article was reprinted with permission from Virginia Mercury.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins, saying the ex-lawman’s federal bribery conviction was well-founded and the pardon misguided.
“I have to authorize any state investigation into any elected official. And so I was aware of a lot of the facts at that time,” Miyares told The Mercury in an interview Tuesday. “Given what I know, I would not have pardoned him.”
The rare public break from Miyares, a Republican and rising star in Virginia politics who is seeking a second term this year, comes just weeks after Trump issued the controversial pardon in late May. The president portrayed Jenkins — a longtime supporter who campaigned for Trump in both 2016 and 2020 — as the victim of political persecution.
“Sheriff Scott Jenkins, his wife Patricia, and their family have been dragged through HELL,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post announcing the pardon. He blamed the case on “an overzealous Biden Department of Justice” and claimed Jenkins had been “left for dead” by “Radical Left monsters.”
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Everyone knows he's an imbecile except for this clown. 