If he pulls it off, and it keeps the wage earners with him, that’s politics played Don Corleone style. There’s probably few wage earners not facing pharma bills strangling them.

Presidential pardons reflect the sleazy reality of modern-day politics, one befitting a mob boss, not U.S presidents.

Competing for the ­geopolitical affections of the world’s most powerful man must be ­exhausting at the best of times.