Years ago, back when he was first indicted for campaign finance violations, then state Senator Brian Kelsey explained publicly that it was all a plot against him by the Biden administration.
A lot of people (us included) got a laugh out of that, and it wasn’t (necessarily) a case of schadenfreude, a German phrase meaning “the taking of pleasure at someone else’s misfortune.”
The general reaction, even from Kelsey’s friends and supporters, was a sense that the Germantown Republican, who’d gotten nailed for illegally channeling money from his state campaign treasury into his unsuccessful 2016 race for Congress, was inflating his own importance beyond belief.
I mean, what were the odds that Biden had even heard of an obscure small-fryTennessee state legislator, much less made a point of targeting him?
The joke, as it turns out, is on the doubters.
As the Nashville-based political newsletter The Tennessee Journal was the first to reveal on Tuesday evening, Donald J. Trump — Joe Biden’s successor as president of the United States, mind you — has expended one of his famous magic pardons on Kelsey, who for the last two weeks had been languishing in federal prison in Kentucky.
Here, verbatim and in toto, is Kelsey’s own Tweet concerning the miracle:
“God used Donald Trump to save me from the weaponized Biden DOJ. This afternoon I received a full and unconditional pardon from an act that even my chief accuser admitted I didn’t commit. Thank you for all your prayers! Praise the Lord most high! May God bless America, despite the prosecutorial sins it committed against me, President Trump, and others the past four years. And God bless Donald J. Trump for Making America Great Again!”
This is not a spoof.
