Trump's Pardons and Communications

Trump's Pardons and Communications

On Tuesday, February 19, Donald Trump announced a host of pardons and communication against a former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich. He was charged and jailed for eight years due to his corruption to the former police commissioner, Bernie Kerik. In front of the jury, Tuesday, trump took many legal actions including the pardons of Kerik, Michael Milken, and Edward DeBartolo Jr. which had happened a couple of days before the federal court sentencing of Roger Stone for corruption. It is assumed that trump might pardon his former adviser aswell. Stones sentences have drawn the attention of trump leaving him to comment by calling this event “A miscarriage of justice”. Trump had told reporters from Fox News that he had not given any thought towards pardoning Stone’s case. Due to trumps mercy in pardoning certain allies, many people in these kinds of situations have requested pardons from the white house. Read this article for more information.

1. Do you think Trump should have not pardoned all these cases?

2. If Trump does not pardon Roger Stone, what would you think a good next step would be?

3. Do you think that pardons should exist?

4. Have you even got away with something that deserved a bigger punishment and how did it make you feel?

Evacuation of U.S Citizens from China

   The United States continues to evacuate U.S Citizens from Wuhan, China the center of the coronavirus outbreak. The U.S government has been taking this very seriously, whoever is evacuated from China could be susceptible to being quarantined for at least 14 days.  The first airplane with deported U.S. citizens landed last week at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California. Every passenger was quarantined for 14 days due to federal orders. The same will happen to the178 passengers who arrived overnight at Travis Air Force Base, southwest of Sacramento, California. The number of people who have died from the virus has increased severely now, it is said that the death toll is 565. A child on a plane who was being evacuated from China along with his parents developed a fever during the flight and immediately after they landed he was put in isolation along with one parent. “We do not believe these people pose a threat in the location they'll be held," said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Respiratory Diseases. This evacuation comes as the 12th case of Coronavirus in the U.S is confirmed in Wisconsin. It is now clear that the virus is passed on like the flu through small droplets of coughing or sneezing. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $100 million to improve detection, isolation and treatment efforts for the coronavirus.

1)Have you ever gone to school knowing you’re sick and not considered how your sickness could spread? What do you think of this?

2)Do you think that putting people in a public quarantine is fair or even a good idea (as in all the sick people together)? Why or why not?

3)What do you think that should be done to stop the virus from spreading? Why?

4)How do you think the coronavirus affected families? Why?