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11:42Now PlayingBoosie Badazz paid $600,000 to two operatives promising a Trump pardon — and got nothing but a lawsuit. Former homicide prosecutor Melba Pearson, the Resident Legal Diva, uses his failed bid as the way into a bigger question: who actually gets clemency in America? From roughly 1,500 January 6th pardons and 77 “fake electors” to white-collar fraudsters whose nearly $2 billion in victim restitution was wiped away, the pattern points to money, celebrity, and access — not justice. Now Sean “Diddy” Combs and R. Kelly are asking Trump for a pardon and a commutation, and Melba breaks down what that would mean for the survivors who testified against them — and why she's standing with the victims.
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