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On Sunday, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” ran a much-touted hidden-camera investigation. In it, they accused the Trump administration of running a “pardon economy” in which upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars were required to buy a pardon.

Furthermore, they alleged they’d gotten hidden-camera footage proved that there were so-called “pardon brokers” who you could pay to get a clean slate from President Donald Trump.

What they found was something they could have discovered via 20 seconds with a search engine: Longtime grifters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are still grifting, and they also can’t get you a pardon.

For whatever reason, Leslie Stahl and the “60 Minutes” crew thought they’d found differently. They said this was a hard-hitting look inside Trump’s pardon “vetting system,” where he’s been “pardoning political allies — including all of the Jan. 6 rioters — as well as a string of unrepentant financial conmen who argued — just like him — that they were wrongly prosecuted.”

“How do these people get their grievances in the president’s ear?” Stahl said. “Donations appear to help, and those who-can-pay hire pardon brokers: lawyers and lobbyists who sell their ties to the president, for exorbitant fees. It’s a marketplace of money and mercy.”

Dun-dun–DUN! Boy, Leslie Stahl really has them dead to rights now, certainly. How could she tout that kind of a story and produce the biggest letdown on network TV since Cousin Oliver joined “The Brady Bunch,” or at least since Fox aired “My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé”?

Easily, if you are familiar with Messrs. Wohl and Burkman.

Wohl, 28, and Burkman,........

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