Broke the Law, No Problem, Send in Your Mom with Some Cash
Who said there was no honor among thieves?
“You can just Zelle me the money. Or do you have Venmo?”
That’s what Trump is saying in this photo. I don’t know for sure, but at the rate the 34-time felon has been pardoning drug dealers, human traffickers, tax cheats, and Medicare frauds, there is a very good chance that this is what he is saying. Also, do you see that the Joker-meets-Dr. Zues kinda-smile? Trump rarely smiles in such a way unless he has moved his bowels in the presence of others thus making them wallow in his stench or he’s grifting some suckers for big bucks.
The smiles we see whenever he talks about Putin or other tyrannical serial killers are more characterized by surprise: Can you believe I’m friends with this guy? He’s such a badass, you know?
Paul Walczak, a Florida nursing home and healthcare industry CEO, has been pardoned by President Donald Trump for employment tax crimes.
The April 23 pardon came less than three weeks after Mr. Walczak’s mother, Elizabeth Fago, attended a $1 million-per-person fundraising dinner, according to a May 27 report from the The New York Times.
Initially charged in February 2023 with 13 counts of tax crimes, Mr. Walczak pleaded guilty to two counts on Nov. 15, the Times report said.
A judge on April 11 sentenced Mr. Walczak to 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release for failing to pay employment taxes and file individual income tax returns. He was also ordered to pay $4,381,265.76 in restitution to the U.S (Courtesy of Hospital Review).
Imagine how that conversation went down at the Mar-a-Lago dinner?
“Hi, Mr. President. I’m a big fan. My son was busted for alleged fraud. But you know how those Biden people were. They weaponized it and went after him because he loves you so much. I got a million bucks in my bra. Can you give him a pardon?”
Walzak stole a lot of money, and rather than pay the $4.3 million back, he gave Trump a cool million and saved himself the rest. Man, whoever said crime doesn’t pay? One serial criminal is POTUS who has increased his personal wealth by over a billion since taking office and this scum Paul Walzak fleeces the system and is then rewarded. Oh, and what is even more shocking is that the Republicans are in the process of cutting nearly a trillion from Medicaid. Their superlative talking point, and I mean that sincerely, is that they are “strengthening Medicaid” so money doesn’t go to “fraudsters, able-bodied adults who refuse to work, or illegal immigrants.”
Those words sound nice, but it’s all bullshit. Paul Walzak is a fraudster. He withheld taxes from his employees and instead of paying them into Medicare, he used the money to pay for his lavish and superfluous life. The Republicans in Congress, led by Trump, will soon start to deny Americans in need of health care, but those well-off enough to pay will not only get all the health care they need, but they can even pinch some of those federal funds for their own greed-driven needs. When you think of what the $4 million he stole could do for a family in need, it brings it home how sick and grotesque we have become as a society.
Meet Paul, his wife, his mommy, and what looks like his son. Mommy has long been a prominent Trump supporter, and so they spun the arrest of Paul as a vendetta against her political activities. Where are we that such people are being not just freed for crimes they commit, but that Republicans and half of America silently then regard these pardoned criminals as modern-day Jesse Jameses?
Trump just pardoned the reality TV stars, Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were found defrauding banks of $30 million. They are now free. The squirrel-eating losers and basement-dwellers from Michigan who planned to assassinate Gretchen Whitmer are being considered for pardons. They will get them. Trump has used the phrase that signals he has received the money, and now it’s just a matter of sitting down and signing the piece of paper.
“I heard they were treated really unfairly. Railroaded.”
Trump knows he was guilty of the crimes for which he was found guilty. Nonetheless, he also thinks he was railroaded. Anyone who committed crimes at his behest or who can pay now gets his forgiveness, and he gets people devoted to him for eternity.
When the Russian czar rode up in a wagon and freed Feodor Dostoevsky moments before he was to be hanged, the great Russian supported the monarchy until his last breath. Donald Trump, too, is buying love and devotion because he thinks he is our czar.