It’s amazing how fast the winds of loyalty can shift in Washington — especially when prison time is on the line.
Michael Cohen, once President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and later star witness in one of the most politically motivated trials in modern memory, is now singing a different tune. His new message for Trump? In two words: Pardon me.
Yes, that Michael Cohen — the one who flipped, testified, and cashed in on anti-Trump book deals and cable news appearances — is now among a group of five convicted white-collar criminals publicly asking Trump for something they didn’t get from President Joe Biden: mercy.
Joining Cohen in this post-Biden clemency tour are former Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., radio host Warren Ballentine, Rabbi Michael Rothenberg, and cardiologist Dr. Michael Jones. All five were convicted of non-violent federal crimes, and none of them made it onto Biden’s controversial pardon list — a list that, conveniently, happened to include members of his own family.
Their public plea, covered by The Hill, argues that Biden’s selective use of the pardon power was ethically questionable and potentially compromised by his declining mental faculties — a not-so-subtle way of saying the president may have been more focused on protecting Hunter than reviewing actual pardon applications.
“Biden’s pardons of close associates and family members raised serious ethical and legal concerns,” the group wrote in a joint Op-Ed, “particularly when others in similar situations were denied pardons.”
The statement practically reads like a courtroom opening: laying out Biden’s alleged memory lapses, confusion, and lack of unscripted interactions as evidence that his decision-making on pardons was fundamentally flawed. The implication? If he wasn’t fully mentally present, his picks for clemency don’t count.
Now, the group is hoping President Trump will right what they see as Biden’s wrongs — a twist that, given Cohen’s role in trying to send Trump to prison, is nothing short of ironic. But hey, as Jackson Jr. said, “This is the path to the Nobel Peace Prize.” Apparently, forgiving your enemies is in fashion again.
Jackson Jr., who defrauded his own campaign to the tune of $750,000, is now positioning himself as a voice for what he calls “70 million criminals” — people who struggle to reintegrate into society because of their pasts. The group argues that, without Congressional approval or a court order, the president has the power to give these individuals a second chance — and Trump, not Biden, should be the one to do it.
Of course, there’s a glaring issue here. Biden’s pardons — including ones for Hunter, James Biden, and several political allies — weren’t just controversial, they were suspect. Critics argue that the decisions were less about justice and more about shielding political allies from consequences. The five men behind this new push say that’s reason enough for Trump to take a second look at every application Biden ignored.
“If Biden’s mental capacity is in question, Congress should consider requiring competency reviews for presidential pardon decisions,” the group suggested. Because if justice is to mean anything, it should be blind — not brain fogged.
Whether Trump will entertain this request is anyone’s guess. But the image of Michael Cohen — the same man who stood in court and on CNN lambasting his former boss — now petitioning for clemency? That might just be the plot twist nobody saw coming… except maybe Trump.
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