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It seems that President Donald Trump had one last pardon up his sleeve -- and this time it benefitted the former husband of a top Fox News host.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports that "with less than hour left in office, President Trump granted one more pardon -- this time to Albert Pirro Jr, the ex-husband of Judge Jeanine Pirro, who was convicted on conspiracy and tax evasion charges."
<p>Trump in his last day in office granted pardons to several politicians convicted on corruption charges, including disgraced former Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick and former Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC), as <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-pardon/" target="_blank">well as longtime ally Steve Bannon</a>, who was indicted for scamming the president's own supporters with the "We Build the Wall" crowdfunding scheme.</p>
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'A fraudulent, phony thing': Fox News pundit says Trump skipped inauguration because he 'doesn't fake things'
January 20, 2021
Fox News contributor Ari Fleisher, a former White House press secretary, on Wednesday praised soon-to-be former President Donald Trump after he refused to attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony.
Fleisher made his remarks as former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush arrived for the swearing in of the 46th president.
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"I think, frankly, and I may be a lonely voice on this," the former press secretary opined, "I think Donald Trump was right not to go today. It would have been so fake of him. And one thing we all know about President Trump, he is not a politician. He doesn't fake things."
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Fleisher continued: "If he feels something, he lets it rip. And if he had gone to this ceremony today for the symbolism of it all, it would have been such a fraudulent, phony thing, having done what he's done and said what he has said. So I think this is keeping to who he is, his personality."
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"I also think it's wonderful for all the former presidents and vice presidents who are there," he added.
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Trump will quickly 'unspool inside himself' without the 'constant feed of attention' he got as president: Biographer
January 20, 2021
Donald Trump is starting a new life as a former president, and one of his biographers thinks he'll quickly unravel out of the spotlight.
The outgoing 45th president faces a slew of criminal investigations of his family's business empire and possibly some of his actions in the White House, but former biographer Tim O'Brien told Politico Magazine that he'll fall into a downward spiral without the constant attention he got in office.
<p>"Apart from whatever happens to him criminally, I also think the other penalty for him is just being ignored," said O'Brien, who wrote <em>Trump Nation</em>. "Because he's gone through these different parts of his life where he's been out on the tundra, cold and ignored and lonely. He's lonely all the time. I think he's a very lonely person generally."</p><p>Trump faced life outside the spotlight in the 1990s, when he was a punchline to jokes about the 1980s and an occasional guest on Howard Stern's radio show, but "The Apprentice" propelled him back into the national conversation and paved the way for his presidential run, O'Brien said.</p><p>"Now for him to wind up sitting down at Mar-a-Lago, playing golf and kvetching and screaming at television screens, and occasionally venturing out to do road shows and support some candidates — I think without this constant feed of attention and interest he's going to unspool inside himself because he needs it so much," O'Brien said. "and I think that's another possible penalty that could emerge."<br/></p><p>Trump won't entirely fade away, thanks to the likely criminal investigations and his status as an ex-president, but O'Brien doesn't think that will be enough to sustain his addition to attention for long.</p><p><span></span>"That's the kind of attention he doesn't care about," he said. "I don't think he cares about history books, really, or the legacy of his office. I mean, he may a little bit, but what he really cares about is what's right in front of him right now, not how he's remembered after he's dead."</p><p>"He's a bottomless pit of need," O'Brien added, "and he needs to replenish it every single day and would love it if he could just be in front of a geyser of attention if he could, and I think thimblefuls of attention won't be enough for him."</p>
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