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Trump gets INSTANT KARMA as Pardons BACKFIRE in His FACE

2025-11-22 News & Politics
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Trump Commutes Sentence for Convicted Trafficker Who Subsequently Committed Violent Felonies

Understand how presidential clemency power, when bypassed from traditional review, releases violent offenders and serves political patronage rather than justice.

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  • Jonathan Braun, convicted of major marijuana trafficking, received a sentence commutation from Trump immediately before leaving office in January 2021.
  • Since release, Braun committed multiple violent acts, including sexual assault, hospital staff assault, and domestic violence against family members.
  • Hosts argue Trump’s pardons exclusively target wealthy allies or January 6th loyalists, bypassing the Justice Department process and undermining the rule of law.

This report details the alarming pattern of post-commutation criminality following a politically driven clemency for Jonathan Braun. Readers gain insight into the two core categories into which Trump’s pardons seem to fall and how this practice conflicts with "law and order" rhetoric.

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Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down the troubling case of Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker who Trump granted clemency to on his last day in office in January 2021. Braun was serving 10 years for trafficking over 100,000 kilograms of marijuana from Canada and money laundering when his family's connections to Jared Kushner helped secure his release after just one year. The hosts detail Braun's shocking crimes since his commutation: sexually assaulting his live-in nanny, swinging an IV pole at a hospital nurse, punching his 75-year-old father-in-law twice while attacking his wife, assaulting a three-year-old child, and evading bridge tolls in his Ferrari and Lamborghini. Judge Kiyo Matsumoto sentenced Braun to 27 months this week, noting that "very few people have had the chance and opportunity you've had." Brian and Shant explain how Trump's pardons fall into two categories—wealthy friends and contributors, or January 6th loyalists—while completely bypassing the Justice Department's traditional review process. With Trump's recent pardons of Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows for attempting to overturn the 2020 election, the hosts explain how this pay-to-play system undermines justice and contradicts Trump's law-and-order rhetoric by releasing violent criminals onto the streets. Kabateck LLP: Call 1-844-74-CIVIL for a free case evaluation or visit us at https://www.kbklawyers.com/ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF by MeidasTouch podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595

Top Comments (10)

@therose5783 2025-11-22

Being a criminal is an asset for MAGA.

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@Mizz-Lady 2025-11-22

0:14 wait…. But they’re blowing up boats in the middle of the ocean without evidence or due process‼️

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@GayleAnn 2025-11-22

When the Dems take the house, they need to make an amendment to somehow make sure that this huge executive power can no longer be used without some kind of limited use

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@Beekind21another 2025-11-22

So pardon the drug dealers/trafficers to the US AND unjustifiably blow up innocent boats of fishermen from Venezuela … checks out

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@Estellbel1968 2025-11-22

They should be a limit how many criminals can be pardoned by a felon criminal

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@SazaSaza-j7e 2025-11-22

The convicted felon needs to be behind bars with all the other convicted felons.

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@MrsTrustygirl79 2025-11-22

Can we get a bill to the house that says pedophiles cannot be pardoned or granted clemency? There should be overwhelming support for it

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@onyxmadeababylp1192 2025-11-22

Evading tolls while also trafficking is Olympic level dumb.

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@leabarnes9142 2025-11-22

Ok so he's blowing up boats believed with drugs but he's letting out drug dealers?!?! This is disturbing and disgusting. Smh

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@MaryWells-m5r 2025-11-22

A tiger cannot change its stripes!!

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