It must have been early 1996, and I was reading his book Illiberal Education, about the undue influence of leftist nonsense on college campuses (a legitimate concern). Partway through the book, I was surprised to see a familiar name — it was the woman I was dating at the time! D’Souza quoted her in a campus paper as having made a radical man-hating statement. So I asked my then-girlfriend about it, and she showed me the full Letter to the Editor she had written maybe 8 years prior about women being threatened by sexual violence. The sentence quoted was indeed in the letter, but in context it was clearly satirical and not the sort of “we should start killing men” advocacy that D’Souza made it out to be.

I remember thinking at the time: If D’Souza was dishonest about the one item in the book I was able to check on personally, what else might he be dishonest about? His subsequent career of producing deceitful propaganda has borne out my worries about his integrity from 20 years ago.

I suppose the next step will be for D’Souza to get a blog on Patheos …

As he’d still be in jeopardy for state charges (or unindicted federal charges), he’d have to be offered immunity to compel testimony. That’d allow prosecution for any perjury committed after immunity’s granted.

Yup: and, thanks to duel sovereignty, there’s no double jeopardy bar to states retrying, on the same charges, people convicted by the feds. Sure, it’s usually avoided outside exceptional circumstances; but if these don’t qualify, nothing does.

I didn’t know Carter had dealings with Trump and Ted Nugent. They were draft-dodgers.
You’re right about the pardons of rich connected people. All the Presidents do it.
Since you are willfully blind to all people that are corrupt on the conservative side, let me say that your downplaying of this phony, Dinesh, is typical for you. Trump is signaling with this clown.

What is different is that Trump is most likely under investigation himself and is throwing a message to those who know things about him. In the instances you mentioned that factor isn’t in play.