Mod: If you go to the USA Today Ad Meter (link) you will discover that out of all 62 Super Bowl ads shown during the broadcast, Donald Trump's masterpiece rolled in at dead last. Even the talking Pop Tarts were better received. Which is fine, and completely justified. Besides, according to the American news outlet MSNBC, it was mostly bullshit anyway. Just like everything else we hear from this fool.The key facts missing from Trump’s misleading Super Bowl ad (
MSNBC link):
Donald Trump aired a couple of ads during the
Super Bowl last night, one of which featured a woman named
Alice Johnson. The on-screen text noted that
Johnson“was sentenced to serve life in prison for a nonviolent drug offense.”
The ad then showed
Johnson being reunited with loved ones, as the on-screen text added, “Thanks to
President Trump, people like Alice are getting a second chance…. People talk about criminal justice reform.
President Trump got it done.” In case anyone missed the commercial,
Trump promoted the ad on
Twitter last night – five times.
On the surface, those watching the ad probably got the impression that
Alice Johnson was released from prison thanks to the criminal justice reform legislation
Trump signed a couple of years ago. But that’s not quite what happened.
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In reality,
Alice Marie Johnson received clemency from the president because celebrity
Kim Kardashian lobbied on her behalf. In fact, the
Washington Post reported today that the traditional process for clemency grants has been largely abandoned, replaced by a system in which inmates with connections get favored status, circumventing the
Justice Department.
The ad didn’t mention
Kardashian– or that all but five of the 24 people who have received clemency from
Trump had a line into the
White House or currency with his political base, according to a review by
The Washington Post. As the administration takes its cues from celebrities, political allies and
Fox News, thousands of other offenders who followed
Department of Justice rules are waiting, passed over as cases that were brought directly to
Trump leaped to the front of line.
For more than 125 years, the
Office of the Pardon Attorney in the
Justice Department has quietly served as the key adviser on clemency…. Under
Trump, the pardon office has become a bureaucratic way station, according to government data and interviews with lawyers, criminal justice advocates, and former pardon and
White House officials. Most of the beneficiaries of clemency under
Trump, the article added, “have gone to well-connected offenders who had not filed petitions with the pardon office or did not meet its requirements.”
Somehow, these relevant details got left out of the
Super Bowl commercial.
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