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Incriminated Trump lawyer begs state judge to respect president’s pardon

Pardons for the Plotters, Consequences for Everyone ElseThe real powerDonald Trump sits at the center of this story, not as a bystander surrounded by overzealous aides, but as the political beneficiary who keeps using power to try to erase accountability. His former Wisconsin campaign attorney, Jim Troupis, is now asking a state judge to extend Trump’s pardon into a case Trump does not control. That is the shape of the arrangement: the person who helped engineer the scheme seeks rescue from the man who ordered the culture of impunity around it.The crime was not confusionThe source describes…

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