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The conservative narrative around Daniel Perry coalesced pretty early. An “evil,” “Soros-backed” prosecutor in Austin, Texas had wrongfully convicted an Army Sergeant who had done nothing more than act in reasonable self-defense when a BLM protester pointed an AK-47 at him. He should be pardoned, they argue, as the victim of liberal prosecutorial overreach—especially because police officers did not initially think that he had committed a crime.
Here’s the guy who selected many of Trump’s judges explaining his point of view: