Lame Duck Trump Unleashes a Tsunami of 20 Pardons: As the clock quickly runs out on his presidency, President Trump is responding by unleashing a flurry of pardons, including four Blackwater mercenaries who were convicted of murdering 14 innocent and unarmed Iraqis, two border patrol agents who shot an unarmed immigrant, and a Florida nursing home mogul, who perpetrated a billion-dollar Medicare fraud - the largest in US history. Not quite finished there, Trump then pardoned three former Republican members of Congress as well as two people convicted of crimes related to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Gee whiz, and to think I just assumed Trump was finished with all this pardoning stuff after the Thanksgiving turkey. Silly me! And that, my friends, is simply Act 1 in the “dial-a-pardon” portion of our interregnum. So, hang on tight folks, because the next three weeks promise to be a helluva ride! Now, Republicans will c...