{"id":32516,"date":"2021-04-21T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T08:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=32516"},"modified":"2021-04-21T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T08:53:09","slug":"trump-pardoned-5-megabanks-to-which-he-owes-millions-for-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=32516","title":{"rendered":"Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks (To Which He Owes Millions) For Corruption Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Deutsche_Bank_Thinker-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"Deutsche Bank Thinker\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Deutsche_Bank_Thinker-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Deutsche_Bank_Thinker.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Tom: Let me preface this by saying that I think Trump was a million percent better option than Biden and I believe the 2020 US election was a complete sham and fraud but I have seen insufficient evidence that Trump is as saintly as some make out and that he cpuld &#8220;drain the swamp&#8221;. For a start, one man in his position can do a lot but a well organised team of crooks is a very, very tough challenge for a small team let alone one man. This 2018 act favouring some of the biggest crooks on the planet illustrates my point.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BaIRqJEarB\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winterwatch.net\/2020\/02\/as-no-one-watched-trump-pardoned-5-megabanks-for-corruption-charges-who-he-owes-millions\/\">As No One Watched, Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks For Corruption Charges \u2014 Who He Owes Millions<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;As No One Watched, Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks For Corruption Charges \u2014 Who He Owes Millions&#8221; &#8212; Winter Watch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwatch.net\/2020\/02\/as-no-one-watched-trump-pardoned-5-megabanks-for-corruption-charges-who-he-owes-millions\/embed\/#?secret=LAmOHyrTRC#?secret=BaIRqJEarB\" data-secret=\"BaIRqJEarB\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Tom: Let me preface this by saying that I think Trump was a million percent better option than Biden and I believe the 2020 US election was a complete sham and fraud but I have seen insufficient evidence that Trump is as saintly as some make out and that he cpuld &#8220;drain the swamp&#8221;. For &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=32516\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks (To Which He Owes Millions) For Corruption Charges&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32518,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516\/revisions\/32518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}