Conrad Black, the author of the pro-Trump piece is a wealthy Canadian (sounds like upper class from his biography on Wikipedia) who was pardoned by Trump for fraudulent activities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Black
"While two of the
criminal fraud charges were dropped on appeal, a conviction for felony fraud and obstruction of justice were upheld in 2010 and he was re-sentenced to 42 months in prison and a fine of $125,000. In 2018, he wrote a glowing book about President Donald Trump. On May 15, 2019, he was granted a full
pardon by Trump.
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Black was convicted on four counts in
U.S. District Court in Chicago on 13 July 2007. He was sentenced to serve 6½ years in federal prison and to pay Hollinger $6.1 million, in addition to a fine of US$125,000. Appeals resulted in two of Black's three criminal fraud charges being vacated, and his conviction for
obstruction of justice was upheld. Black was initially found guilty of diverting funds for personal benefit from money due to Hollinger International, and of other irregularities. The alleged
embezzlement occurred when the company sold certain publishing assets. He was also found guilty of one charge of obstruction of justice.
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In the initial verdict, Black was fined $125,000 and sentenced to 6½ years in prison, serving a total of 37 months after two fraud charges were overturned by the
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, leaving one fraud charge and one obstruction of justice charge, and the improper receipt of $285,000, which was disclosed and approved but incompletely documented, and civil penalties from the SEC. The 6½ year sentence was reduced to 3½ years.
[59] The $6.1 million fine to the SEC was reduced to $4.1 million in 2013.
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How ironic that DDT who championed the silent majority and lower class of society was really or at least has become the tool of the upper class. Hey, you could say he has been one of them, though kind of an outsider -- he inherited $400 million from his father.
You could say the same for Obama, who promised much more progressive values and views, and then failed to achieve any of them, aside for continued war in the Middle East, and the intensification of drone war that killed many innocent people -- I'm being sarcastic in that last comment.
