Articles by Jeffrey Toobin

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The Trouble with Donald Trump’s Clemencies and Pardons
Jeffrey Toobin – The New Yorker, 2 Mar 2020

19 Feb 2020 – Authoritarianism is usually associated with a punitive spirit—a leader who prosecutes and incarcerates his enemies. Authoritarians also dispense largesse, but they do it by their own whims, rather than pursuant to any system or legal rule. The former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, whose fourteen-year prison sentence was commuted, was a contestant on Trump’s TV show “Celebrity Apprentice.”

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