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red dog 1

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Fri Jan 16, 2026, 06:52 PM Friday

Ron Filipkowski reposted this today on Bluesky

Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-01-16T23:37:36.801Z
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Ron Filipkowski reposted this today on Bluesky (Original Post) red dog 1 Friday OP
While killing the USA................ Lovie777 Friday #1
who is this lady and her dad? Skittles Friday #2
I saw a brief blip of this on MS Now, and never saw Ilsa Friday #3
aren't pardons public record? Skittles Friday #4
I haven't looked it up. I don't know which Ilsa Friday #5
Posted below canetoad Friday #7
Names canetoad Friday #6

Ilsa

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3. I saw a brief blip of this on MS Now, and never saw
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 07:36 PM
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the names of the eoman, her dad, or her sibling, who got a pardon, too. The story featured the sngle that she got s pardon before, then re-offended, and needed a new pardon.

The wealthy just buy their way out of trouble, of course.

Ilsa

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5. I haven't looked it up. I don't know which
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 08:22 PM
Friday

federal district prosecuted them.

I don't understand why the press didn't make their identities clearer.

canetoad

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6. Names
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 08:33 PM
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snip......Also among the recipients of Trump’s “Get Out of Jail Free” cards were three defendants who were awaiting sentencing after being convicted for “a political corruption case related to accusations that former Gov. Wanda Vázquez of Puerto Rico had accepted bribes from Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan-Italian banker, in 2020,” reported the Times.

Herrera’s daughter Isabella Herrera, donated $2.5 million to MAGA, Inc., Trump’s super PAC, in late 2024. He had been facing felony charges, including bribery, but his lawyer, Christopher M. Kise, “who had served on Mr. Trump’s legal defense team, negotiated an unusually lenient deal with the Justice Department” that let him plead to just a misdemeanor campaign finance violation last May.

https://www.mediaite.com/crime/trump-just-pardoned-a-convicted-fraudster-he-previously-freed-from-prison-for-a-different-fraud-in-2021/

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