Cocaine-dealer, car-thief, tax-fraud, embezzler and, according to Trump, a wonderful person.

[DetlefK]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/the-donald-and-the-dealer-173892

Presidential contender Donald Trump, who has vowed to stanch the flow of narcotics and criminals entering the U.S. from Mexico, once wrote to a judge urging leniency for a friend who was convicted of distributing kilos of cocaine that had been smuggled into the country from Colombia, court records show.

In advance of Joseph Weichselbaum’s November 1987 sentencing by a U.S. District Court judge, Trump wrote that the drug trafficker was “conscientious, forthright, and diligent" and "a credit to the community.”

At the time Trump wrote his character reference letter, Weichselbaum, then in his mid-40s, was already a twice-convicted felon. In addition to his 1986 plea to federal cocaine distribution and income tax charges, Weichselbaum’s rap sheet included prior convictions for grand theft auto and the embezzlement of more than $130,000 from a Brooklyn manufacturing firm where he worked for a decade.

[TexasTowelie]

1. I wonder what number he has on the list

for presidential pardons if Trump became president?

[book_worm]

2. If it were Bill Clinton sending such a letter the media would be all over it.

[SticksnStones]

3. But it's Trump so...