President Donald Trump is on the money in pardoning Dinesh D'Souza and possibly commuting the sentence of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, D-Ill., as well as pardoning Martha Stewart, veteran political commentator Michael Reagan told Newsmax TV on Thursday.
"I think he's making right decisions on every one of these," Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan, told hosts Miranda Khan and John Cardillo on Thursday's "America Talks Live."
"He's picking the right people to pardon and there are some in there that he probably should commute their sentences, also. It's good to see him not waiting until the end of his administration to pardon people."
Trump announced Thursday on Twitter he was giving a full pardon to conservative commentator and filmmaker D'Souza, who was sentenced in 2014 to five years of probation for federal campaign law violations.
D'Souza admitted he illegally reimbursed two "straw donors" who donated $10,000 each to the unsuccessful 2012 U.S. Senate campaign in New York of Republican Wendy Long. He also personally contributed $10,000 when the legal limit for an individual contribution at the time was $5,000.
Reagan said D'Souza, who made a film highly critical of President Barack Obama, was the victim of an overzealous Democratic Justice Department.
"Had he bundled for Obama, nothing would have happened," said Reagan, author of "Lessons My Father Taught Me: The Strength, Integrity, and Faith of Ronald Reagan." "I mean bundling in politics is about the same as sexual harassment in Hollywood. Guess what? It goes on – and it's always going to be going on."
"Bundling is just part of what goes on in politics. But Dinesh D'Souza bundled for the wrong side."
After his tweet about D'Souza, Trump said he might commute the sentence of Blagojevich, the Democratic former governor serving 14 years in prison on corruption convictions in 2012; and pardon Stewart, convicted in 2004 of obstructing justice and lying to the government in a stock trading case.
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that Blagojevich said something dumb but "lots of politicians" do and his sentence is excessive. In 2005, Stewart starred in a short-lived spinoff of Trump's reality show "The Apprentice" called "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart."
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