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Trump Hired Adviser John Tate Who He Pardoned for Campaign Finance Crimes

A campaign operative who Trump pardoned over his participation in a political bribery scheme is now working for the Trump campaign.

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Trump Hired Adviser He Pardoned for Campaign Finance Crimes

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersFormer President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is once again spitting on campaign finance laws, this time by hiring a strategist who was convicted of crimes related to a political bribery scheme—and who Trump later pardoned.According to new disclosures filed over the weekend, Trump’s political operation has hired John Tate via his company, JFT Consulting, Inc. JFT received about $13,000 for “political strategy consulting” in June—

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Fed Judge Says 'Criminal' Trump Only Pardons Republicans, Child Murderer Or Turkey

Fed Judge Says 'Criminal' Trump Only Pardons Republicans, Child Murderer Or Turkey
On 12/29/20 at 7:03 PM EST
Federal Judge Robert Pratt recently called President Donald Trump "a criminal" and criticized Trump's wave of presidential pardons, stating, "Apparently to get a pardon, one has to be either a Republican, a convicted child murderer or a turkey."
Pratt's comment referred to the December 23 pardons that Trump gave to fellow Republicans, security contractors convicted of killing a child and other Iraqi civilians and the literal turkeys that Trump annually pardons as part of the Thanksgiving presidential tradition.
"It's not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals," Pratt said during a Monday interview with the Associated Press. Pratt, a judge in the U.S. Court of the Southern District of Iowa, made the comments when asked about Trump's pardon of two former top aides of Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign who were convicted for corruption.

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Trump gives full pardons to 2 Iowa men's federal offenses in 2012 election

Trump gives full pardons to 2 Iowa men's federal offenses in 2012 election
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Updated: 3:01 PM CST Dec 24, 2020
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Updated: 3:01 PM CST Dec 24, 2020
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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump granting full pardons to Jesse R. Benton and John Fredrick Tate of the southern districts of Iowa. In 2016, Benton and Tate were convicted of a variety of charges after offering $73,000 to former Iowa state Senator Kent Sorenson to change their endorsement to (R) U.S. Rep. Ron Paul in the 2012 presidential election. Documents state that Benton, Tate and another Paul aid funneled the money between October 2011 and August 2014. The staffers wrote off the expenses as "audio/visual expenses." Documents also show emails exchanged between the parties about the payments. Benton and Tate were charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, causing false records, causing false campaign contribution reports and false statements scheme. Benton and Tate were sentenced to two years probation, six months home confinement, 160 hours of community service and a $10,000 fine. Meanwhile, Sorenson pleaded guilty to falsely reporting expenditures and obstruction in 2017. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison.

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Trump pardons two convicted in 2012 Caucus endorsement scandal

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Two of the pardons President Trump has granted involve a criminal case connected to the 2012 Iowa Caucuses.
Four men connected to Ron Paul’s presidential campaign were convicted of concealing payments to a state senator who changed his endorsement from Michele Bachmann to Ron Paul just before the 2012 Iowa Caucuses.
Former state Senator Kent Sorenson of Indianola pleaded guilty and a judge sentenced him to 15 months in prison. The president did not pardon Sorenson, but Trump did pardon two others who were found guilty by a jury. They are John Tate, Ron Paul’s campaign manager, and Jesse Benton, the 2012 campaign’s chairman who is also married to the candidate’s granddaughter and, therefore, related by marriage to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.

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