This is how it begins, folks.
Last Friday, the Detroit Free Press mused that Donald Trump might want to pardon Kwame Kilpatrick as a fuck you to the Justice Department, former president Obama, and people in general.
Yesterday, Kilpatrick — in the midst of a 28-year prison sentence for racketeering and other crimes — asked for that pardon.
Kilpatrick made the public plea on his "official" Facebook page and a new website to which local media outlets, including this one, have devoted a good deal of coverage. The Free Kwame Project is essentially a Kwame truther site aimed to improve perceptions of the ex-mayor, raise money for his legal defense, and give an outlet to his Jesus-laced ramblings.…