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Media have no interest in the women of color exonerated by Trump

By TATIANA PROPHET

Chelsea Handler tweeted on Tuesday something about how Trump pardoned people of a certain color.

Then Twitter schooled her.

Handler tweeted: “While our president exonerates criminals and releases them from jail, notice what color they all are.”

Maybe Handler was confused because mainstream media has written very little about the four women of color who received clemency from President Donald Trump on Tuesday. TMZ and Newsmax wrote about Angela Stanton, who received a full pardon after serving a home confinement sentence in 2007 for involvement in a stolen-vehicle ring. She was also a cast member on Real Housewives of Atlanta (a really good version of that reality franchise). Tynice Hall was 19 when she “turned a blind eye” to her live-in boyfriend’s drug deal at her home.