{"id":37664,"date":"2018-07-10T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=37664"},"modified":"2018-07-10T10:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T17:00:47","slug":"trump-pardons-the-hammonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/10\/trump-pardons-the-hammonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pardons the Hammonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump today issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/07\/10\/trump-pardons-oregon-ranchers\/\" target=\"_blank\">full pardon to Dwight and Steven Hammond<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hammonds, father and son, are Oregon ranchers whose original &#8220;crime&#8221; was that a small part of a controlled burn ran onto adjoining federal land. They served time in prison for that (bad enough). Then after they were released, federal prosecutors appealed and managed to get them thrown back into prison. Because terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, makes sense. Only if you&#8217;re a vengeful fed with a hate-on for western ranchers. Is there any more malicious and ruthless occupational group today than fed prosecutors?<\/p>\n<p>The Hammonds&#8217; re-imprisonment led to the ill-considered, ill-planned, informant-ridden, and ultimately fatal takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge (Bundy work, not Hammond work).<\/p>\n<p>A just and merciful move on Trump&#8217;s part. The Hammonds should never, ever have had to do more than pay a fine or reparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump today issued a full pardon to Dwight and Steven Hammond. The Hammonds, father and son, are Oregon ranchers whose original &#8220;crime&#8221; was that a small part of a controlled burn ran onto adjoining federal land. They served time in prison for that (bad enough). Then after they were released, federal prosecutors appealed and managed to get them thrown back into prison. Because terrorism. Yeah, makes sense. Only if you&#8217;re a vengeful fed with a hate-on for western ranchers. Is there any more malicious and ruthless occupational group today than fed prosecutors? The Hammonds&#8217; re-imprisonment led to the ill-considered, ill-planned,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/10\/trump-pardons-the-hammonds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump pardons the Hammonds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37667,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664\/revisions\/37667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}