Will the prosecution against Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and his crew stay alive after President Donald Trump pardoned a politician convicted in a similar case in Cincinnati? WCPO (Sharkey) reported Friday:
President Donald Trump has issued several pardons, including one to former Cincinnati City Council member Alexander "P.G." Sittenfeld. Once a rising political star and favorite to be Cincinnati's mayor, Sittenfeld was sentenced to spend 16 months in prison for bribery and attempted extortion. He served roughly four and a half months before he was released for the duration of his appeal. Sittenfeld had asked to have his public corruption conviction thrown out; the appeal process began in May 2024. Sittenfeld has maintained that he did nothing illegal by accepting $20,000 in campaign donations from undercover FBI agents who were posing as developers and championing their project to redevelop a blighted downtown property into a boutique hotel because he was a pro-development politician.... We reached out to more than a dozen current and former city leaders for comment about the pardon. As of now, only a few have responded, including Councilman Jeff Cramerding. "I was very surprised. Obviously, President Trump is a Republican. I just, I did not see him pardoning a democratic council member in the city of Cincinnati," Cramerding said. Article and video of trial
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Smart money says Trump will pardon him
Bet Trump and Shock-Way are really tight-
KF are you going to request info on how much money the legislature and other leaders pissed away by having a special session? Would be great to hold them accountable for not doing the job they were elected for.
Chowke and Trump went to different schools together.
On this topic, nothing Trump does surprises me. And I hate that we had such horrific options to make me vote for him.
On the topic at 11:54...I second that motion.
What a piss poor waste of money our useless legislature is.
They should all have to pay US back for this comedy show they perform each year.
Trump typically pardons those that have a surrogate campaigning or donating to him. Chokwe isn't going to become a Trump supporter anytime soon so a pardon is probably out of the question.
It’s almost as if Donald J. Trump isn’t “literally Hitler” the way that the hysterical unhinged media troons make him out to be.
I saw photos of Chowke coming out of Mar-a-Lago and playing a round of golf with Trump. They are very tight.
I'll try. No promises after all, they did exempt themselves from public records requests.
This thread is proof that Kingfish's radar is broken and he needs contributions.
I kept speculating that Chokwe would be pardoned.
Ya''ll didn't want to listen.
Here's why it happened IF IT HAPPENS.
There was no better way to stick it to Mississippi's RINOs than to pardon Chokwe. Republican MAGAs will see it as an excellent idea and three dimensional electoral chess, and the RINOs heads will assplode.
Can you say win-win?
Appreciate the Don Rickles reference.
Did you go over to WLBT's FB page and make the same comment under Anthony Warren's story?
Despite what we may think of the mayor and his buddies, this whole thing screams entrapment.
A pardon would not be out of line.
Would be great to hold them accountable ...
I'll bet they're extremely worried about the online comments from an anonymous piss ant. Very, very worried.
The mayor wants you to know that if any of you continue to harbor resentment against him, he encourages you to release that.
Would be great to hold them accountable for not doing the job they were elected for.
Says someone who hasn't read the job description and hasn't yet realized they are in fact doing EXACTLY what they were elected to do*. (Just ask their happy donors and campaign consultants.)
* See also: TANF and who got paid.
How do you know?
@12:34 That’s 4D Chess.
You know, the type Spock played on Star Trek: TOS
Hinds DA +/- to FBI "Developers" while discussing how to pay Lil Choke $50K: "We'll mix it with drug money and funnel it through a few LLC accounts to his campaign fund. That's how we've done it before."
FBI wants the win and will include evidence of other Lamumba crimes until the skanky fake mayor pleads guilty.
Imagine that? And guess who was right about Biden's mental decline the whole time?
1:14, entrapment? Like he had no other choice but to go along?
Well, for an older, white, so-called Republican, and a younger, black Democrat, they do have the exact same inflated ego and arrogant narcissistic personality, so maybe so.
If I'm Chockwe now is the time to start cozying up to Trump and other republicans. Trump ordered the DOJ to stop investigating NYC mayor Eric Adams (democrat) and now this lol. Time to slowly start moving right and secure a pardon. Its sad that our president will pardon those who have stolen from us just because they cozy up to him.
According to you if you hide in a store room and catch someone burglarizing your store that is entrapment.
Will a few of Chowke's "dope boys" be called as character witnesses?
No way, no how Trump pardons Gumflapper. Trump has a long memory and won't forget how Antard gave him the cold shoulder during his Mississippi visit in 2017.
Loser predicting a pardon likely the same boob who peppered JJ for the last 3+ years that Lumumba was going to win re-election to a 3rd term without breaking a sweat.
I agree it seems like entrapment, but it’s SOP for the FBI. The way they busted everyone in the Scruggs bribery scandal seemed like entrapment and all those guys did time.
Don't rule out a pardon. Even Benny got one.
I agree with 3:43. No pardon for Baby Chok. He crossed Trump's red line by dissing him.
@3:46 no those people are long gone. No money to pay them. Not stupid enough to accept a job at CoJ for 5 weeks as compensation. Definition of paid astroturfing as opposed to grass roots.
President Trump should pardon Lumumba. The criminal DOJ shall be brought to the President's heel.
"Anonymous said...
KF are you going to request info on how much money the legislature and other leaders pissed away by having a special session? Would be great to hold them accountable for not doing the job they were elected for.
June 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM"
My Dad, although not financially successful, was a wise man. When folks talked about term limits and the like, he always said, we already have that, it's call the ballot box.
to 4pm....you dont know much about what constitutes the legal defense of entrapment, do you?
are you licensed to practice law or just self taught?
an entrapment defense is only used when you got nothing else.
its the classic desperation samba.
12:17 prove it and post the photo
Scruggs was already trying to bribe the judge and the FBI was able to record it.
Here no crime existed until the FBI created it. No telling what the jury will think, but this scenario is what the entrapment defense is for.
Why in the flying F should Uncle Trumpy pardon this trash? He needs at least 2 yrs in the pen.
Labumbla needs only shimmy to the right a fraction and white Republicans will line up to offer him jobs. It’s how white Republicans tell you “Anybody who knows me knows I’m not racist” without telling you “Anybody who knows me knows I’m not racist.” LaBumbla’s rise to leadership in the GOP will rival Michael Steele’s.
The discussion isn't whether he should, the discussion is whether he will.
If he donates his ill-gotten gains to “Don Taco” surely he will get a Pardon’
7:52, you don't have to be a lawyer to understand they are throwing everything at the wall to keep thier client out of prison. It's up to a judge to determine if that is valid or not. Remember, a Supreme Court Justice implied you have to be a biologist to determine the difference between a male and female. So, not all lawyers are smart.
if you have ever met the DA you would know there is no way in hell he could be drug dealer, he talks too much, too fast lol he would not make it 1 week
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