A new report out of The Daily Beast suggests that at least one of the many criminals pardoned by Donald Trump during his Tuesday free-for-all filled up the Trump Victory Committee with “hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct contributions and in-kind air travel.” According to the Beast, Paul Pogue and his family signed a lot of checks to the president’s committee in the months preceding his pardon.
Paul Pogue was convicted in 2010 for filing false income tax statements. According to the Dallas Morning News, Pogue, the former CEO of construction company Pogue Construction, based in Texas, pled guilty to underreporting taxable income in 2004, 2005, and 2006 and was given three years’ probation, a $250,000 fine, as well as a restitution judgement of almost half a million dollars. An additional 1,000 hours of community service was also required of Pogue.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that none other than failed religious-like guy Rick Santorum planted the seed for Pogue to Trump, telling the corrupt orange narcissist that Pogue’s conviction “sort of stunk.” Totally unrelated, Santorum’s 2016 campaign received at least $11,000 in contributions from Pogue and his family.
According to the Daily Beast, Ben Pogue—Paul’s son and new CEO of Pogue Construction—donated $85,000 to Trump’s Victory Committee and at around the same time, Paul’s daughter-in-law Ashleigh donated $50,000. What are the odds? Amiright? They were not done there, as the Daily Beast writes that in the, “following month, Ben Pogue made an in-kind air travel contribution of $75,404.40.” Oh, the two also contributed a bunch to the RNC and another $10k to Donald Trump for President Inc.
Do you want to see what they look like? Head on over to Ashleigh Pogue’s Instagram, where she puts up photos, and according to the Beast the same day as the couple’s first contribution toward their father’s pardon, with Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle—in the Hamptons together.
It doesn’t matter which side of the aisle you are on, Donald Trump thinks you’re a sucker. Frankly, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks you’re a sucker too, as do faux-moderates like Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. On Tuesday corrupt white supremacist in chief Donald Trump pardoned a long list of corrupt officials. It was a reminder of what Trump thinks about “corruption,” writ large.