Angela Stanton is Shocked President Donald Trump Pardoned!
Donald Trump released a long list of surprising pardons this week, from former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. to the former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik.
The 11 individuals pardoned included convicted white-collar criminals and the former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who was accused of attempting to sell Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat.
House Republicans from Illinois were extremely disappointed in Blavojevich’s commutation, issuing a joint statement that read in part, “We are disappointed by the president’s commutation
of Rod Blagojevich’s federal sentence. We believe he received an
appropriate and fair sentence, which was the low-end of the federal
sentencing guidelines for the gravity of his public corruption
convictions. Blagojevich is the face of public corruption in Illinois.”
There was also one pardon that some did not see coming, Angela Stanton.
In 2007, she served a 6-month home confinement sentence for her role in
a stolen-vehicle ring. Yesterday, she received a presidential pardon
from Trump.
Stanton, who is mentored by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece and diehard Trump supporter Alveda King, told conservative site Newsmax ,“I just started hyperventilating right at the airport. I was just crying like a baby. People thought someone had died.”
She continued, “I just had to sit there for a minute to digest it all. I
always said that when I left this world, that would still be on my
record. I just wanted to finally, truly be free. Today, hours before my
birthday, it has happened for me … and I’m still in absolute disbelief,
I’m in shock.”
In Newsmax, King, who is descrived as an “evangelist and
pro-life warrior,” admitted to talking with Trump about Staton. King
claims she told Trump after he signed the pardon, “Wow, you really make
promises, then you keep them.”
Angela Stanton also appeared on TMZ Live and bizarrely criticized
President Barack Obama’s Fair Sentencing Act, claiming that is a reason
why people were “left behind” in prison. The 2010 Fair Sentencing Act was widely praised and reduced the imposition of mandatory minimum
sentences and eliminated the mandatory minimum sentence for simple
possession of crack cocaine.
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