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Pardongate

name

Etymology

From pardon + -gate.

  1. derived from perdonare
  2. derived from pardoner
  3. inherited from pardonen
  4. suffixed as pardongate — “pardon + gate”

Definitions

  1. The 2001 controversy around Bill Clinton's pardons of 140 people, including Patty Hearst,…

    The 2001 controversy around Bill Clinton's pardons of 140 people, including Patty Hearst, on his last day in office as President of the United States.

    • Newly elected Senator Hillary Clinton suddenly found herself caught up in Pardongate's swirl, as prosecutors began reviewing her husband's grant of clemency for four upstate New York rabbis whose village voted for her […]
    • […] hearings on Pardongate, Clinton's eleventh-hour clemency spree, were still under way.
    • Nicknamed “Elvis,” Clinton is considered a “rock star” by the left wing of the Democratic Party, perhaps because he left the White House in shambles after his presidential tour. Whitewater, Travelgate, Monicagate, and Pardongate […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA