It's Who Ya Know

The Hammonds got pardoned for setting fires on public lands ahead of a line of ten thousand other applications because their lawyer knew someone... who knows Forrest Lucas... who knows (and gives money to) Mike "Whitest Man Alive" Pence.

Are you pardoning people for felonies because they're buddies with the members of your administration?  You might be a redneck!  Or a banana republic! Or BOTH!