President Donald Trump blasted California Gov Jerry Brown today for his pardon of five ex-convicts facing deportation, including two who fled the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia with their families four decades ago.
In a tweet , Trump referred to Brown as "Moonbeam," referencing a nickname a newspaper columnist coined for him in the 1970s.
Trump then listed the ex-convicts' crimes before they were pardoned yesterday. They include misdemeanor domestic violence, drug possession, and kidnapping and robbery.
Trump wrote: "Is this really what the great people of California want?"
In a news release about the pardons yesterday, the governor's office said that "those granted pardons all completed their sentences years ago and the majority were convicted of drug-related or other non-violent crimes."