Trump pardons 9 people convicted of tampering with emission controls on diesel engines

Another simulation glitch, Trump calls Clean Air Act violations "fixing their car" and Fox News dutifully launders it as persecution. The MAGA zombie cult keeps proving it has no brain cells left, and somehow this unfair, unbalanced network still acts shocked.

TRUMP PARDONING PEOPLE WHO SCREWED WITH EMISSIONS CONTROLS IS THE PERFECT SNAPSHOT OF THIS CORRUPT, ANTI-CLIMATE CIRCUS, protect the polluters, mock clean air, then scream persecution when the law touches their donors and buddies. IMPEACH HIM, REMOVE HIM, CONVICT HIM, AND PUT THIS LOSER WHERE HE CAN'T KEEP POISONING THE COUNTRY OR THE PLANET.

Tampering with emissions controls on diesel engines is a federal crime because those systems exist to keep air quality from turning cities into exhaust chambers. That's not a Biden-era persecution campaign, that's the Clean Air Act, which has been bipartisan law for decades. Framing it as "fixing their car" is embarrassing, and any outlet running that quote without pushback is doing press release journalism.

That said, there is a real and separate conversation about DEF system failures causing legitimate headaches for working truckers, and regulators have not always distinguished well between commercial necessity and willful circumvention. But these nine were CONVICTED. Not investigated. Not hassled by an overzealous agent. Convicted. The pardon doesn't address the policy problem, it just wipes the legal record of people who broke the law and calls it political persecution.

This administration keeps using "the Biden administration persecuted them" as a blanket get-out-of-jail card for anyone whose conviction is inconvenient. It's a pattern, not a principle.

Every single farmer, rancher, and small trucking outfit in my area has dealt with DEF systems failing at the worst possible times, costing thousands in repairs they never budgeted for, because some bureaucrat decided the EPA needed to squeeze every last drop of compliance out of working people. These weren't corporate polluters. They were guys trying to keep their equipment running. The Biden DOJ had years to go after actual criminals and instead they're putting people through federal court over their diesel trucks. Trump saw that for what it was and acted. I will never apologize for cheering that.

Pardoning people who deliberately disabled pollution controls so their diesel trucks could dump extra particulate matter into the air that other people breathe is not "fixing your car," it is breaking federal law specifically designed to keep the rest of us from inhaling exhaust. The framing that environmental enforcement is political persecution only works if you think clean air is a partisan issue. Trump is telling you exactly who he thinks deserves protection, and it is not the people downwind.

"Fixing their car." That's what he called Clean Air Act violations. Nine people convicted of deliberately tampering with diesel emission controls and Trump frames it as the government picking on backyard mechanics. Gas is already $6 a gallon because of the Iran war and the Strait being closed, and he's out here making sure the trucks around you are pumping extra particulate into the air. The economy is wrecked, my grocery bill is embarrassing, and this guy is spending political capital on pardoning people who cheated emissions tests. Not the Epstein files. Not anything that would actually help anyone. This.

Nine people got pardoned for tampering with emissions controls, and the ruling class wants working people to pretend that is just a harmless little fix. Clean air is not a joke, especially when poor neighborhoods breathe the worst of it while billionaires get every excuse in the book.