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Chelsea Handler Gets Dragged on Twitter After Falsely Suggesting Trump Pardons Only Whites

Democrats are desperate as they see their chances of winning in the 2020 presidential election slipping away, and they are clinging to the one thing they know: the race card.

It is the liberal failsafe that they believe works every time. When you have no argument and no facts on your side, just shout “racist.”

But in the age of social media, it is not as simple as that anymore. You will be called out if your claims are false, as alleged comedian Chelsea Handler learned.

The former late-night host tweeted Tuesday after President Donald Trump pardoned, or commuted the sentences of, several high-profile people.

In her tweet, Handler derided the “fact” that all of the people that the president does this for, such as former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, are white and rich.

“While our president exonerates criminals and releases them from jail, notice what color they all are,” Handler said.

Only one problem, as was quickly pointed out.

“Everybody screencap Chelsea’s tweet. She’ll delete it soon when somebody tells her about Tynice Hall, Judith Negron, Crystal Munoz, Angela Stanton-King,” one person said.

Handler responded by twisting herself in knots to explain how the president is not responsible for the pardons and commutations that only he can give.

“First of all, that was Jared kushner prison reform and it was inspired by his father,” she tweeted. “The black people who were released from prison were never criminals to begin with.

“They had low level drug possessions. Trump just released real criminals and they are all white.”

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Everybody screencap Chelsea's tweet. She'll delete it soon when somebody tells her about Tynice Hall, Judith Negron, Crystal Munoz, Angela Stanton-King

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First of all, that was Jared kushner prison reform and it was inspired by his father. The black people who were released from prison were never criminals to begin with. They had low level drug possessions. Trump just released real criminals and they are all white

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That wasn’t true, either.

“I’m BLACK,” tweeted Angela Stanton-King, one of the people who was helped by the president in his latest round of pardons and commutations.

“Anyone notice that NONE of Black media is reporting my Pardon? Tell me again who’s the oppressor,” Stanton-King said.

It is a sad state of affairs in 2020 America when the media, celebrities and a political party, the Democrats, have all conspired to hide the truth from people.

They have created a false reality, and they have no shame in living in it. But they should learn that in this day and age, the old tricks do not work anymore.

There are people, like Stanton-King, who are going to hit you with the truth, and others are going to share it — and you are going to look ridiculous.

Toddler Hugs Pizza Delivery Driver Not Knowing the Driver's Daughter Had Just Passed Away

A toddler’s impromptu hug in appreciation of his pizza delivery man ended up bringing a measure of comfort to a family in the throes of grief.

Ryan Catterson works for Wicked Good Pizza in Rhode Island as a delivery driver.

Last weekend, Catterson delivered a pizza to Lindsey Sheely’s home.

As he was leaving the house, a small boy darted out the front door and threw his arms around Catterson in a warm hug.

Catterson, surprised but happy, returned the hug and waved farewell to the boy.

Sheely took a quick video of the sweet interaction and posted it to Instagram, chuckling over her son Cohen’s impulsive decision to chase down and hug the pizza delivery man.

As social media often goes, somebody who saw the video shared it with Catterson, who soon sent Sheely a message asking if he could share the video himself.

When Sheely visited Catterson’s Facebook page, she quickly realized that her son’s hug was more than just a cute interaction — to Catterson, it had been a dose of love when he needed it the most.

Sheeley learned that Catterson’s daughter, just 16, died earlier that week.

“After losing my daughter this past week, it just touched me because it was like she was there,” Catterson told WLNE of Cohen’s hug.

“It just meant a ton to me.”

Catterson shared that his daughter struggled with her mental health and lived in California with her mother, Danielle McCord, Catterson’s ex-wife.

“It’s going to be tough to know that I’m not going to be able to hug her again,” Catterson said.

McCord told WLNE that she, too, was grateful for the way Cohen’s love helped her family.

“It’s so easy to miss people and their internal pain,” McCord said. “That even goes to our daughter. We didn’t know her pain. I can’t help but be grateful that somebody saw his pain and was able to be there for him.”

Catterson said the timing was perfect — he had just been talking to his family about needing all the hugs he could get.

“Just that it was the perfect timing for it, I had been telling my kids and the whole family how much I needed hugs before they came and then that sweet little boy gave me one,” Catterson said. “It was almost as if the universe or my daughter had known and sent it to me.”

Out of caution, Sheely could have prevented her son from dashing out the front door to hug a stranger, but she told WJAR she is grateful the interaction took place.

“If I had been afraid to let Cohen run out the door because we don’t know this man, and that’s the world we live in, then we would’ve missed out on this entire touching moment that truly impacted not just Ryan’s life but his entire family and mine,” Sheely said.

Obama Weaseled Out of a Subpoena 10 Years Ago, but Trump Just Freed the Man Behind It

The year was 2010. Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was embroiled in a court case that threatened to send him away for over a decade.

The Democrat was accused (and later convicted) of attempting to sell the newly emptied U.S. Senate seat of then-President Barack Obama. The former governor’s defense team had a strategy, however: They would subpoena Obama himself as a star witness.

According to the defense, Obama was seemingly more involved in the process than was previously thought.

“First, Mr. Obama contradicts the testimony of an important government witness,” a motion from the lawyers read.

“Second, President Obama’s testimony is relevant to the necessary element of intent of the defendant.

hird, President Obama is the only one who can say if emissaries were sent on his behalf, who those emissaries were, and what, if anything, those emissaries were instructed to do on his behalf.”

After an internal report by Obama’s own lawyers cleared the president, a judge ultimately shot down the motion.

For Obama, it was a perfect scenario. Blagojevich was convicted and sentenced to prison, taking the fall for the scandal. Any discussion about Obama’s involvement, which was seemingly so minimal that a court refused to subpoena him, could safely be declared a right-wing conspiracy.

That is, until President Donald Trump commuted Blagojevich’s sentence Tuesday.

Redactions in Blagojevich’s original motion seem to hint Obama was more involved than he let on.

The claims link Obama to a convicted fraudster, a quid pro quo scheme and secret phone calls. If this subpoena had been granted 10 years ago, there’s a good chance we would know a great deal more than we do now.

It’s unclear what plans, if any, Blagojevich has to revisit the 2010 trial and subpoena request.

If Obama is found to have connections to this case that his team helped to obscure, it would only add to the list of scandals that occurred during his two terms in the White House.

Trump’s freeing of the former Illinois governor is sure to bring this narrative back into the light once again, hopefully with some conclusions this time. A post from the president underscored his doubts about Blagojevich’s conviction.

Regardless of Blagojevich’s innocence, the question remains:

How much did Obama know, and how deeply was he involved?

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Obama Weaseled Out of a Subpoena 10 Years Ago, but Trump Just Freed the Man Behind It