Trump’s great Alice Johnson Super Bowl ad reminds us he deserves major credit for criminal justice reform

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Awesome Super Bowl ad from the POTUS. Thousands of Americans have been reunited with their families because of the First Step Act, which was signed into law by President Trump in 2018. Many like Alice Johnson will support President Trump with their vote in 2020! #Trump2020!

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Trump’s great Alice Johnson Super Bowl ad reminds us he deserves major credit for criminal justice reform

By Washington Examiner, February 3, 2020

It was just a short spot during a first-quarter commercial break of Sunday night’s Super Bowl, but the criminal justice reform advertisement President Trump ran featuring Alice Johnson was brilliant. The advertisement touted his criminal justice reform record, a rare bright spot where Trump truly has delivered what no other president in recent history could.

With the landmark, bipartisan criminal justice reform bill the First Step Act signed into law during his tenure, Trump can claim a major accomplishment heading into 2020. He’s right to make it into a prime-time Super Bowl advertisement, too, because support for criminal justice reform is bipartisan and ranges across voters from all walks of life and backgrounds. It’s a much better, more unifying issue to focus on for an event like this than a highly-divisive issue such as immigration or abortion.

The president tweeted the advertisement out in real-time as it aired, along with the commentary that “I promised to restore hope in America. That includes the least among us.” It was a powerful, unifying message and moment. A rarity for Trump, sure, but he deserves credit nonetheless.

The commercial focuses on Trump’s commutation of Johnson’s sentence. Johnson is a now-famous prisoner who faced a draconian life sentence for nonviolent drug crimes. This, unlike some of Trump’s other pardons and commutations — Sheriff Joe Arpaio, I’m looking at you — was one that deserves praise. Johnson was featured in the Super Bowl advertisement, and the sheer emotion of it rings true: President Trump truly gave her a second chance at life. For both that and his broader criminal justice reforms, Trump deserves major credit.

 

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FormerlyNicab
FormerlyNicab
4 years ago

I like her ending “God Bless America”. The un-Progressive Democrats need to stop the Hate against America.

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
4 years ago

Mayor Pete say he talks to Republicans who even admit that “they struggle to look their children in the eye and explain what [Trump] says.”
Because they’re children, Mayor Pete. Not because it’s wrong.
Mayor Pete himself is virtually a child. And it takes a committed homosexual man to be so badly deluded and insolent to think he is fit to challenge a tested, forged, experienced leader like Trump for the pinnacle of leadership of our country and the world. When Mayor Pete hasn’t even figured out what hole to put it in yet.

AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
4 years ago

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

meanwhile crack dealer extraordinaire JZ sat for the Nation Anthem

appears to have same tailor as Hitlary

ed
ed
4 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

And Sir Paul McCartney, a citizen from the UK, STOOD for our National Anthem…..

arthur facteau
arthur facteau
4 years ago
Reply to  ed

Sir Paul spent many years in the U.S., on and off, and learned to appreciate. he learned to value what we have here. He learned that we have something here that is worth having and worth respecting. He is also, no matter what you might think of his music or of him himself, a man of some personal dignity, and he has respect for others. He showed that respect. In so doing, he showed himself a man of dignity, and a man of honor. He showed himself a man that deserved the title of ‘Sir’. Well done, Sir Paul, well done.

ed
ed
4 years ago
Reply to  arthur facteau

Absolutely……Well done, Sir Paul !!!
And thank you for writing what I had left unsaid, but most certainly what I meant, Mr. facteau !

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

I have to unload on this.You’re supposed to be DUMB and not know this. Nothing like rubbing salt into a wound. I beg to differ on this. Alice was rightly convicted. Her sentence was high. In those days we actually punished people for a crime. She was a conduit for drug dealers. She didn’t discriminate on who the buyers were…. Already liberal judges are letting out rapists and other violent people.

Thanks to idiot, numb nuts, Jared, we will have a 1970’s repeat without updated Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry movies. Jared took offense to his father who was rightly convicted for embezzlement and he got a LIGHT sentence in a cushy federal prison.

WAKE UP PEOPLE! This was an asinine move. This is nothing to be pleased about and another reason WHY nepotism should NEVER be allowed under ANY circumstances. I don’t care about them NOT being paid. Get Javanka the hell out!They are spolied limousine liberals that live in a bubble. ON eis dumber than the other and both please people like George Soros!

First Step is about as wonderful as FEDERAL medical leave that Trump had to EO for Ivanka – a total BIMBO! Do people realize how easy federal employees have it? Contractors do the work – not the federal employees. The federal employees over see them with their feet up. They have lavish benefits, lots of vacation time, and of course any federal holiday you can think of. With family leave they will have even less of a reason to show up. I am unclear if it is only limited to pregnancy. Will dad be breast feeding too? Does your spouse get three months off in the private sector? Imagine the disruption to a business. Never mind. They work for the FEDERAL government. They won’t be missed. Either way both mom and dad, if they are federal employees, get 12 weeks, or 3 months off and YOU are paying for it. Did I mention the LAVISH PENSIONS YOU are paying for? Federal employees don’t contribute to it – YOU GET THE BILL FOR IT.

Let’s talk pensions YOU are funding. Keep in mind it is nearly impossible to fire them. Federal employees with few exceptions have a job for life. Do you have a job for life? Don’t tell me that “Ivanka is brilliant with numbers.” Javanka needs to go! Working for the federal government is a COUNTRY CLUB at YOUR EXPENSE.

Excerpt – from Business Investors Daily –

But what really got us was that, after working at the FBI for just 22 years, McCabe’s pension package was valued at a whopping $1.8 million. And even if he loses that, as someone who is covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System, he’ll still get a pension. It’ll just be smaller than his FBI pension, and he’ll have to wait until 60 to collect it, but it will be generous nonetheless.

Please remember, McCabe was fired on recommendation of the FBI’s own Office of Professional Responsibility. It wasn’t vindictiveness. (Fired for LYING)

The real scandal is that government bureaucrats like McCabe have gamed the system for years to get platinum retirement and benefits packages, all paid for by the hardworking, taxpaying “deplorables” these same bureaucrats despise.

As one of the federal government’s 2.2 million employees, McCabe’s pension is subsidized, insured and mostly guaranteed by taxpayers, part of a generous benefits package — covering health insurance, paid leave and, of course, retirement — available to all federal workers.

Along with having 401(k)-type pensions with a generous “employer” match, federal workers also get a defined-benefit pension, to which they contribute less than 1% of their pay. Oh, and they also receive health coverage when they retire. And Social Security.

Are you still impressed with how generous Ivanka is with YOUR TAX DOLLARS? Private sector workers get nothing comparable and YOU PAY FOR IT through YOUR TAXES!

A Congressional Budget Office study last year noted that “Average benefits were 52% higher for federal employees whose highest level of education was a bachelor’s degree than for similar private-sector employees.”

As for those federal employees with just a high school diploma, benefits are 93% higher — no, that’s not a misprint — than for those with equivalent education in the private sector.

According to data the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which is part of the federal government, in 2016 the average federal employee earned $127,259 in total compensation, compared to $70,764 for the private sector. Meanwhile, federal workers enjoyed average annual benefits of $38,450, compared to average benefits in the private sector of just $11,306.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/fbi-scandal-over-andrew-mccabes-lost-pension-isnt-what-you-think/

Get Ivanka and Jared out! Jared’s “deal of the century” is a joke and was DOA! ENOUGH!!!!! These two are freaking DISASTERS!

Yes I will be voting for Trump this year but I can’t praise these two IMBECILES! I am hopeful that BOTH will move on and this was their “victory” . Both are FAILURES!

livingengine
livingengine
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yeah, I was going to say something similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Marie_Johnson

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Thanks for First Step, Jared!
They have armed body guards, that you pay for, do you?
Goorge Soros wanted the same reform and so did the Koch brothers.
No wonder the swamp had biparisan support for this….the swamp knew they could hide behind Trump who pushed it for Jared.

Charles Koch Crusading With Liberals for Prison Reform
https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/charles-koch-criminal-justice-prison-cory-booker/2015/03/05/id/628455/

SOROS fingerprints on LA country BAIL REFORM (and NY too)
https://nearchaosblog.com/post/158195421633/soros-fingerprints-on-la-county-bail-reform

Rick Manning: Soros and Koch Brothers Collude to Empty Federal Prisons
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/08/23/rick-manning-soros-koch-brothers-collude-empty-federal-prisons/

Bernie Sanders’ “No Money Bail Act” Nothing More than a Litmus Test for his next Presidential Run
BY: ABCADMIN
https://ambailcoalition.org/bernie-sanders-no-money-bail-act-nothing-more-than-a-litmus-test-for-his-next-presidential-run/

George Soros’ quiet overhaul of the U.S. justice system
Progressives have zeroed in on electing prosecutors as an avenue for criminal justice reform, and the billionaire financier is providing the cash to make it happen.

By SCOTT BLAND 08/30/2016 05:25 AM EDT
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/george-soros-criminal-justice-reform-227519

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felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Now you know why Jared and ice cube, high maintence Ivanka, never miss an invite to an establishment globalist party. They are useful idiots and do their bidding. They go to ALL of them. Ivanka often delivers speeches to a near empty room and this is not the first or only time hardly anyone showed up. – see below.

Ivanka and Jared rub shoulders with billionaire Democrat George Soros, Steven Spielberg and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer during party hosted at a Washington Post editor’s Hamptons home
By Ashley Collman
7/3/17
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4661732/Ivanka-Jared-rub-shoulders-liberals.html

Ivanka Trump ‘greeted with half empty-room’ while giving Tokyo
speech on women’s empowerment

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ivanka-trump/index.htmlcomment image

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

How can anyone celebrate THIS? It’s a green light for LIBERAL judges to release violent criminals and rapists – thanks to Jared an unpaid nepotist “advisor”. Paid or not, I didn’t vote for Trump to accommodate Jared and SOROS’s world view on crime.

Report: ‘First Step Act’ Frees Hundreds of Sex Offenders, Convicted Murderers
JOHN BINDER
26 Jul 2019

The Republican and Democrat-supported criminal justice reform legislation, known as the “First Step Act,” has already allowed hundreds of violent convicted criminals to be released from federal prison, records reveal.

The First Step Act, championed by a coalition of the leftist criminal justice reform movement, mogul Kim Kardashian West, and libertarian organizations funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, was signed into law last year by President Trump as advocates repeatedly claimed violent criminals would not be released early from prison.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/26/report-first-step-act-frees-hundreds-of-sex-offenders-convicted-murderers/

Accused Murderer Freed by ‘First Step Act’ Instantly Returned to Drug Life
JOHN BINDER
29 Oct 2019

A notorious leader of the “Almighty Latin Kings” gang, now accused of murder, instantly returned to a life of drugs and violence after being released from federal prison by the “First Step Act.”

In early February, 41-year-old Joel Francisco — dubbed the “Crown Prince” of the Latin Kings gang in 2005 — was released from prison after President Donald Trump signed into law the First Step Act, promoted by a coalition of Democrats, Republicans, and progressive and libertarian nonprofits.

Less than a year after his release, Francisco allegedly murdered 46-year-old Troy Pine by stabbing him to death and skipped town in an attempt to evade murder charges. Weeks ago, police captured Francisco in Texas and extradited him to Rhode Island.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/29/accused-murderer-freed-by-first-step-act-instantly-returned-to-drug-life/

Need more examples of this FAILURE where early release is allowed by IDENTITY POLITICS? It’s not the “elites” that will be affected by this. It is YOU who will be affected by this. It never pays to define punishment down as First Step does.

Mike Kevins
Mike Kevins
4 years ago

Sheriff Joe’s case was nothing more than political payback. Almost as bad as this Russian collusion crap.

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