HST Friday - Sometimes A Favour Is Just A Favour...

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'Nobody gives a mojo wire as a present, right?'

That was Hunter Thompson, writing to Dick Goodwin, by physical letter, in late 1975 about the early version of the Xerox telecopier (i.e. the 'mojo wire') that Jann Wenner sent him in an effort to crank up his writing output during the upcoming 1976 US'ian presidential campaign.

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Speaking of US'ian presidents and 'presents'...

...Trump has issued more than 2,000 pardons and commutations this year — 10 times the number he pushed through in his entire first term...

But, nobody gives a pardon as a present, right?

Well...

...(N)otorious is the (pardon) case of billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, dubbed “crypto’s richest man,” who had previously pleaded guilty to money laundering that U.S. prosecutors said benefitted Hamas terrorists and Russian drug dealers. Zhao “rehabilitated” himself by helping to boost the Trump family’s crypto venture, which “raked in about $1.4 billion in revenue over the past year … far more than the president’s real-estate portfolio ever earned annually,” according to The Wall Street Journal. When Trump was asked about this shady pardon on 60 Minutes, he said he didn’t know who Zhao was...

Cazart!

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Pardon stuff is from a recent piece by John Avalon in Rolling Stone (web archive link) which is no longer owned by the good Mr. Wenner.

Image at the top of the post?...Bill Murray as the Docktor and the departed Bruno Kirby playing a Wenneresqueish character in 1980's JohnnyDepp-free, and Uncle Neil-infused, 'Where The Buffalo Roam'.


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