May 26 (UPI) -- Former Culpeper County (Va.) Sheriff Scott Jenkins won't have to go to prison for bribery after President Donald Trump pardoned him on Monday.
Trump accused a "corrupt and weaponized Biden" Department of Justice of engaging in an "overzealous" prosecution of Jenkins that resulted in his December conviction on bribery and other charges in the U.S. District Court of Western Virginia.
"In fact, during his trial, when Sheriff Jenkins tried to offer exculpatory evidence to support himself, the Biden [-nominated] Judge, Robert Ballou, refused to allow it, shut him down and then went on a tirade," Trump said Monday in a Truth Social post.
"In federal, city and state courts, radical left or liberal judges allow into evidence what they feel like, not what is mandated under the Constitution and rules of evidence," Trump continued.
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