On-line scammers are selling false Trump pardons to well-meaning Felons!

@TheHorse (205263)
Walnut Creek, California
January 19, 2021 4:09pm CST
“It’s very sad that there are scammers out there willing to take advantage of well-meaning felons who are sincerely trying to purchase a pardon,” Meadows said. “My advice is this: if someone is trying to sell you a pardon for less than two million dollars, it’s fake.” There were the words I just read in an article in the New Yorker. How sad that scam artists would take advantage of those who want to legitimately buy a pardon from President Donald Trump. My Nigerian Barristers may not be real, but at least they are not selling me false pardons from the President of my beloved United States of America. Patriots, please join me in condemning the sale of false pardons by unscrupulous scam artists to our most well-fed white-collar criminals.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/white-house-warns-people-buying-pardons-that-counterfeit-pardons-are-being-sold-online?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Borowitz_011921&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9e5fe3f92a40469
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
19 Jan 21
Can a man not even make an honest living these days??
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
19 Jan 21
@TheHorse I might have to turn to crime!!!
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Jan 21
@WorDazza Do Federal prisons have gold courses?
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Jan 21
It's terrible, isn't it? What's a white collar guy to do?
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@thelme55 (76477)
• Germany
19 Jan 21
There are a lot of scammers nowadays.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
@JimBo452020 They're everywhere.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Jan 21
Borowitz can be quite funny.
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
19 Jan 21
There really are a lot of scammers out there.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
19 Jan 21
I managed to snap one up for a friend of a friend but when it arrived it said "Not valid until 21 Jan 2021". Is it a fake? At least it has the great man's signature on it ... "Doanld Tramp" and I know THAT'S genuine!
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Jan 21
Keep it. I will be worth two month's of MyLot earnings in 20 years.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
@JimBo452020 Sad that she was ill in her later years.
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
19 Jan 21
Doanld Tramp. Sounds like someone from.the Isle of Lewis where his mother came.from
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@xander6464 (40826)
• Wapello, Iowa
19 Jan 21
You can't trust anyone anymore!
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Jan 21
I just can't afford two-million right now. Unless there's a low interest rate on borrowing.
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@xander6464 (40826)
• Wapello, Iowa
19 Jan 21
@TheHorse Just come to the White House. Crazy Donny Is Going Out Of Business!!!! Lost His Lease! He's Willing To Deal! He's also selling the fixtures! Need some furniture, art, electronics, a nuclear suitcase???? Everything Must GO! His salesmen will do everything they can to put you in a pardon tonight!
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
@xander6464 Pardon? I've been too dang innocent these past few years. BORING!
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@lovebuglena (43059)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Jan 21
The things that people pull these days.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
@lovebuglena I was not, though one 4-year-old went "yum yum yum" when she hugged me goodbye.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
@lovebuglena I had not known that. Maybe that's what they meant. But I don't look like a computer geek.
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• Mexico
19 Jan 21
I can't believe this and yet it's true
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Jan 21
Borowitz writes satire. It's...not...exactly true.
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
20 Jan 21
It seems that this is the year of the scammers and spammers.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
They've been around so long I lose track.
@BarBaraPrz (45437)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
20 Jan 21
You mean, you can buy a pardon, with money? Who'd thought...
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
Heh heh. Under the table, probably.
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@kaylachan (57380)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Jan 21
First of all, I didn't think you could "buy" a pardon at any price. However, I agree it's sad that scam artists need to sink so low. Furthermore, the people who they are scamming committed some kind of crime. I wouldn't want to be the scammer when their hussle is found out by the more violent ones.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
I assume you read the piece. It's satire, so you don't have to take it too seriously.
@Aquitaine24 (11653)
• San Jose, California
20 Jan 21
Trump doesn’t charge for pardons,right? LOL
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@Aquitaine24 (11653)
• San Jose, California
21 Jan 21
@TheHorse True.
@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
On the record, no. But he's not known for doing things "out of the goodness of his heart."
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
20 Jan 21
I am sure that the orange guy got good money to issue those pardons, he surely needs a lot of money now.
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@LadyDuck (457412)
• Switzerland
20 Jan 21
@TheHorse Exactly, now he founds a new Party, he needs his "good" friends to help scamming and collect more money.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
The chickens (financial and otherwise) are coming home to roost.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
@LadyDuck Is it confirmed that he's going to do that? If so, he'd take away votes from Republicans. That would allow the Democrats to go more "politically correct," as they don't have to court the middle. I actually don't want to see that.
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@RasmaSandra (73241)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Jan 21
Not surprising that there are so many scammers out there. It makes it harder for honest folk because they are faced with very doubtful and untrusting people
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@RasmaSandra (73241)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Jan 21
@TheHorse almost like the old jokes about selling people things like the Brooklyn Bridge
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
The piece I liked was actually satire. I found it quite funny.
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@LindaOHio (155562)
• United States
20 Jan 21
There are scammers and con artists for every area of our lives. It's a real shame.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
It is.
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
20 Jan 21
wait they are false (one second). Ok, yeah that's bad who would ever do that?
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
Bad scammers. Bad!
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
20 Jan 21
@TheHorse people will do anything to make a buck sometimes.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
@DocAndersen I wonder who wrote Trump's last two speeches. They were actually "presidential." Too little too late, though.
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@wolfgirl569 (94782)
• Marion, Ohio
20 Jan 21
Let them sell them to the idjits.
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
Heh.
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@JudyEv (325345)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan 21
That is a hell of a price for a pardon!
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Jan 21
Heh.
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