Well, it would take a lot to push the first pardon by a president of the United States to that president's son out of the top news story slot in the American news media.

But Donald Trump was able to do it.

He did it with his history-making string of the most ridiculous presidential appointments in history this weekend, beginning with the first

presidential nominee in history to have served time in federal prison, to later be pardoned by

the president who is now nominating him, who, oh, by the way, is a family member.

Donald Trump has chosen the convicted felon, Charles Kushner, to be his ambassador to France,

an insult to France.

It is a position for which convicted federal felon Charles Kushner is uniquely

unqualified. Here's what the Republican U.S. attorney who prosecuted Charles Kushner in 2004

had to say about him. It was so obvious he had to be prosecuted that, I mean, if a guy hires a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and videotapes it and then sends the videotaped to his sister to attempt to intimidate her from testifying before a grand jury, do I really need any more justification than that?

I mean, it's one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I

prosecuted when I was U.S. attorney. Loadsome and disgusting, now the theme of the Trump

confirmation process, that is not the only loathsome and disgusting behavior that has been

documented among the Trump choices for his cabinet.

On the same weekend, that Donald Trump chose his daughter's father-in-law, convicted felon,

to serve as ambassador to France after Donald Trump pardoned him.

Joe Biden chose to pardon his son for crimes that surely

would not have been prosecuted if Hunter Biden's father were not the president of the United

States when Joe Biden was running for reelection and assuming he would serve another four years

in office, he said he would not pardon his son, but things have changed dramatically

since he said that with Donald Trump's election and Donald Trump's public promise to use the

full force of federal prosecutorial power against his political enemies, which include anyone

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