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Jeffries backs Trump’s pardon of Cuellar: ‘Exactly the right outcome’ (thehill.com)

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The remarks are a stark contrast from Jeffries’s criticisms of the scores of other pardons Trump has offered — mostly to his political allies — throughout his second term. Jeffries, joined by most Democrats in his caucus, has bashed those reprieves as both an affront to the nation’s criminal justice system and more evidence that the Trump administration is the most “corrupt” in the country’s history.

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Cuellar and his wife Imelda were indicted in May 2024 on federal charges of bribery, money laundering and foreign influence peddling. The Justice Department accused the pair of accepting $600,000 in bribes from two separate businesses: a Mexican bank and a petroleum company run by the government of Azerbaijan. In return, Cuellar used his influence in Congress to push for policies beneficial to both, according to the Justice Department.

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In announcing his pardon Wednesday, Trump [accused] Biden of using the Justice Department to target Cuellar because he “bravely spoke out against Open Borders.”

“Sleepy Joe went after the Congressman, and even the Congressman’s wonderful wife, Imelda, simply for speaking the TRUTH,” Trump wrote Wednesday on his Truth Social account.

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[–] MdRuckus@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago

I’m so sick of Jeffries. He needs to go.