Trump voters heartbroken as he pardons crook who scammed them of millions

https://www.alternet.org/trump-pardon-corruption/

The Times UK reports Colorado pig farmer John Long was at home when he got the message that Marian Morgan, a scammer who robbed $20 million from him and thousands of other investors through a Ponzi scheme, was being released from prison less than halfway through her 33-year sentence.

“It was not for good behavior or because she had paid her victims back,” reports the Times. “Morgan was being released because President Trump had commuted her sentence.”

This, reports the Ties, also released the convicted scammer from the restitution payments she owed her victims.

Long, an 80-year-old Trump voter, called the newly freed Morgan “criminally insane,” and warned she’s only “going to suck money out of somebody” else.

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db2@lemmy.world · 116 pts · 17d (2 replies)

Trump voters heartbroken

I call bullshit. One has to have a heart before it can be broken. Their angry stupid is just vaguely focused on themselves, like a particularly stupid dog angry at its own tail.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 53 pts · 17d

They've moved from, "I've got mine. Fuck you!" to "I had mine and Trump screwed me over so feel sorry for me. Fuck you anyway!"

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 17d

they do have one, its just all black hearted.

AgentSeven@lemmy.zip · 80 pts · 17d (1 reply)

Long, an 80-year-old Trump voter

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 17d

what a coincidence the pedophile in charge is also 80.

collapse_already@lemmy.ml · 62 pts · 17d (4 replies)

Every article about him should use this image:

he really is this stupid.

quarkquasar@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 17d (2 replies)
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Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 17d

*donnie drumpf Please, his real name

Almacca@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 16d

The Internet Today lads have taken to calling him 'Our decaying President' every chance they get. :)

stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 16d

Can we also use this one for Wikipedia please

JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 17d

fellForItAgain.jpg

brax@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 17d

Why would they be heartbroken? They literally voted in a crook who scammed them of millions... Calling these people dumb is an insult to dumb people.

WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 16d (2 replies)

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 15d (1 reply)

Poor leopards must be suffering from obesity at this point.

WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 17d

pig farmer John Long

Long Pig to his friends, the leopards

bedwyr@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 17d

The victims should sue in court. There is a line in the constitution about no civil trial being re-examined or retried by any court. Idk how that works with judges cancelling or reducing judgements from juries but the president doesn't have the authority to cancel a civil verdict, no one does, other than the judges upstream.

f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 17d (2 replies)

I'll have to find the source but I read that Trump has pardoned a number of fraud convicts whose criminal incomes, stolen from the American public, collectively total over one billion dollars... so only 50 times what this bitch did, already pardoned.

rayyy@piefed.social · 3 pts · 16d

You don't suppose these vile criminals paid off another criminal, do you?

goldfndr@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 15d
oyzmo@piefed.social · 13 pts · 17d

that man makes me want to 🤮

AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 17d

They'll still vote for him.

knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 17d (1 reply)

He's got that dementia grin.

Almacca@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 16d

I think of it as more of a smug arsehole grin.

Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 11 pts · 17d

You get what you voted for so cry me a fucking river!

jtrek@startrek.website · 10 pts · 17d (1 reply)

Seems karmic that people who voted for trump suffered.

CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 15d

"he's not hurting the right people"

InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 17d (2 replies)

It's obviously not as many as it should be, but let him keep chipping away at his support. Some of them are brainwashed, some of them are just slow, so it will take time but eventually they'll come to the conclusion on their own where it all leads.

roofuskit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16d

Don't confuse a breif moment of criticism with them changing their mind about him.

Hacksaw@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 16d

Yeah these people all "hate" him, but they'll vote for him 1000x times before they vote for the Communist Democrats with their crazy healthcare for all and whatever else.

I wish the Democrats were even 1% as based as Republicans think they are.

MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 16d

The victim, like others, was contacted by Morgan and her co-conspirators in 2006, who purported to be an exclusive group of financial advisers with an opportunity to invest money in Europe with huge returns within months at low risk.

Greedy and dumb, just like his Beloved Leader.

webp@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 16d

a man of the people

opus86@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 17d

Have the day you voted for.

phoenixarise@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 17d

I didn’t know that they had hearts to break. lol oh well, fuck ‘em. 😊

AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 15d

Crazy he can pardon them not only from jail but also from having to payback the victims? Wild lol

BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 15d (2 replies)

Every time I see a new Trump pardon I wonder what it would be like if a dem ran for president promising to pardon Luigi

JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 15d (1 reply)

Well, not gonna happen. Because capitalism.

BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d

A man can dream

III@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d

"...again."

I assume that got cut off from the title.

betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 16d

"but but but! he said he'd work for me!"

manxu@piefed.social · 3 pts · 16d

Long, an 80-year-old Trump voter, called the newly freed Morgan “criminally insane,” and warned she’s only “going to suck money out of somebody” else.

See, that's why we need gendered pronouns. If Long hadn't said, "she," I would have totally thought he was talking about Trump.