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U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt in Iowa ridicules Trump's pardons In this Nov. 13, 2012, file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder talks with U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt (left) in Des Moines. Pratt, who has warned that systemic political corruption is a threat to U.S. democracy, is ridiculing President Donald Trump’s pardons, including those issued to convicted Republican campaign operatives and members of Congress. “It’s not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals,” Pratt, of the Southern District of Iowa, said Monday. (Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo) Assoc...

A federal judge in Iowa slammed President Trump U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt made the statement during an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. Pratt said, “Apparently to get a pardon, one has to be either a Republican, a convicted child murderer or a turkey.” ADVERTISEMENT Pratt was referring to Trump’s Republican allies in the government, security contractors convicted of killing civilians in Iraq and the turkey that is pardoned each Thanksgiving. The AP reports that Pratt’s statement came when he was asked by the news outlet for a comment on the recent pardoning of ...

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