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January 20, 2021 10:38 a.m. Disgraced former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham’s messy “bribe menu” was, apparently, just tacky enough to garner President Trump’s sympathy. In an 11th hour move, Trump used his final moments as President to issue pardons and clemency to 143 people, including his aides and associates as well as friends of his closest allies. The list includes Duke Cunningham and his lava lamp. Trump issued Cunningham a conditional pardon, as Cunningham...

TPM Illustration/Getty Images The Time TPM Went To Toronto In Search Of Rob Ford, And Other Golden Duke Stories In the Trump era, political scandals of yesteryear are routinely written off as quaint — events from a time when the bar for decency was higher and our collective threshold for tolerating scandal hadn’t yet been dismantled by the brazen, unethical behavior that the Trump administration ushered in. That’s not quite the case with Rob Ford. The crack-smoking lat...