'Birds of a feather': Trump stuns with new pardon of porta-potty exec and sludge dumper

President Donald Trump set off a stream of mockery and online backlash after he issued a full and unconditional pardon to a Southern California portable toilet executive convicted of illegally dumping sludge.

According to New York Times reporter Kenneth P. Vogel, Trump pardoned Arie Eric De Jong III, a 59-year-old executive at Diamond Environmental Services, a San Marcos, California-based portable toilet company. De Jong, the company’s owner, pleaded guilty in 2017 to illegally disposing...