The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree
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Sunday, April 5, 2026
Trump has created a veritable pardon industry, in which people with White House connections accept payments from wealthy convicts. Among those on whom he has bestowed freedom are dozens of people convicted of fraud. He has also pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras, who helped traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States, and Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for running Silk Road, a sprawling criminal enterprise that sold drugs. There seems to be no crime too ugly for a pardon.
The Haircut
Dear Diary:
It was a Friday evening in March, and I desperately needed a haircut. I booked an appointment at 6:30 p.m., the last slot available that day, at a nearby barbershop, and got it done.
The next morning was particularly windy, and I couldn’t find my winter hat. Running out the door, I grabbed a baseball cap and stuffed it in my jacket pocket.
Later that afternoon, as I was heading for the Bedford Avenue subway stop, the wind picked up, making for a brisk walk.
I pulled the baseball cap over my head, the hood of my sweatshirt over my ears and the hood of my jacket over them both. It looked foolish, but it was effective.
I got on the train and was still shivering when it passed under the East River and arrived at the First Avenue stop.
The doors opened, and a man got on. I recognized his face but couldn’t immediately place it.
I looked down, trying to jog my memory. Then I looked at him again, and it clicked: my barber from the day before.
At that moment, he turned and nodded to me and then glanced at my excessively covered head.
“It was that bad, huh?” he said.
— Philip McHugh
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Banks should walk away from participating in the overpriced SpaceX I.P.O. and Elon Musk's demand that they subscribe to AI Chat Bot Grok
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Robust job growth in March report though subject to a sharp downward revision next month gives Jerome Powell a temporary opportunity to raise interest rates and focus on fighting inflation.
Strong Jobs Numbers Make the Fed’s Job Easier
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Trump has managed to give Iran the upper hand in this conflict while tanking the global economy and shredding America’s most important alliances. Trump may not have pulled out of NATO on Wednesday, but European leaders understand that the pact is increasingly meaningless. “If you create doubt every day about your commitment, you hollow it out,” President Emmanuel Macron of France told reporters on Thursday.
Friday, April 3, 2026
The only off ramp toward the complete destruction of the Middle East's desalination plants is for Trump to declare victory and withdraw all U.S. forces and bases from the Middle East and let Iran charge its $2 million per vessel toll at the Hormuz passage until they rebuild and work it out among their neighbors
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Trump can't target Iran's desalination plants because Iran could do the same to its neighbors and put all friend and foe alike in an existential crisis.
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Trump's Vietnam
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