Robert Gehrke: Trump wiped Weldon Angelos’ record clean, but a bigger problem needs to be addressed

Every president in my memory has done it, the on-the-way-out-the-door pardons and commutations of prisoners and convicts.Frequently, they become political and naturally the list of pardons so far issued by President Donald Trump is more extreme than that of his predecessors. It includes a rogues gallery of his loyalists and hangers-on.He gave dubious pardons to his former campaign manager Paul Manafort and hatchetman Roger Stone, both convicted as part of the Mueller investigation; his son-in-la