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Trump Pardon List: POTUS Grants 20 People Executive Clemency Days Before Christmas KEY POINTS Among those pardoned are four Blackwater guards who murdered 17 Iraqi civilians He also pardoned former congressman Hunter who pled guilty to misusing campaign funds President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a wave of executive clemencies -- including the pardons of four military contractors involved in a fatal shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians -- just days before the Christmas holiday.  Trump’s rece...

Donald Trump Pardons Fifteen Americans Including George Papadopoulos President Donald Trump pardoned fifteen Americans Tuesday night, including his former campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos was charged with one count of making false statements during Special Counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into accusations of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia. “Notably, Mueller stated in his report that he found no evidence of collusion in connection with Russia’s attempts to...

Skip to main content Trump grants clemency to three ex-GOP members of Congress and two men convicted in the Russia probe Rosalind S. Helderman, Matt Zapotosky and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post Dec. 22, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail File photo of U.S. President Donald Trump from December 12, 2020.Al Drago/Getty Images WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump granted clemency on Tuesday to 20 people, including three former Republican members of Congress and two people who were convicted of crimes as p...

Trump Issues Full Pardons to Two Former Border Patrol Agents 22 Dec 2020 President Donald Trump issued full pardons to two former Border Patrol agents on Tuesday. A federal prosecutor filed charges in 2007 against the two agents who were involved in the shooting of a drug smuggler. President Trump issued a full pardon Tuesday evening to former U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. “These former Border Patrol Agents have been supported by one hundred members of Congress, in...

Susan Walsh / AP Update at 2 a.m. ET Wednesday Perpetrators of a massacre, perjurers, corrupt politicians, money launderers, nonviolent convicted drug dealers and a 1950s moonshine-maker are among those whom President Trump granted clemency on Tuesday, ahead of the Christmas holiday. In all, Trump granted full pardons to 15 individuals and commuted part or all of the sentences of an additional five. Among the high-profile pardons are three former Republican members of Congress, including D...

Donald Trump pardons 15, commutes 5 sentences, including GOP allies A file photo of US President Donald Trump. (Photo: AFP) . Updated: 23 Dec 2020, 05:20 PM IST AP Trumps actions in his final weeks in office show a president who is wielding his executive power to reward loyalists and others who he believes have been wronged by a legal system he sees as biased against him and his allies Share Via Read Full Story WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump has pardoned 15 people, including a pair of c...

President  Donald Trump pardoned 15 people and commuted the sentences of an additional five people on Tuesday (December 22). The biggest name to receive a presidential pardon was former Trump campaign advisor  George Papadopoulos, who was convicted of making false statements to investigators during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference. Alex van der Zwaan, who also pleaded guilty to lying to investigators, received a pardon as well. Duncan Hunter, a form...

Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency Posted on Today, President Donald J. Trump granted Full Pardons to 15 individuals and commuted part or all of the sentences of an additional 5 individuals. Alfonso Costa — President Trump granted a full pardon to Alfonso Costa, a dentist from Pittsburgh.  Dr. Costa’s request for clemency was supported by Dr. Ben Carson and Jerome Bettis, as well as by numerous business associates, patients, and community leaders fr...

Trump commutes remaining prison term of former Texas GOP congressman Steve Stockman, who was convicted of misusing charitable funds Texas Tribune Updated:  Tags:  Former U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Friendswood, right, leaves the United States District Courthouse in Houston in 2018. Outgoing President Donald Trump commuted the remainder of Stockman’s 10-year prison sentence for misuse of charitable funds. Credit: Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune , our daily newslette...

Trump Pardons 15 People, Including Several GOP Allies, Mercenaries Convicted of Iraqi Massacre On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced a batch of pardons, including forgiveness for two defendants who pleaded guilty in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. The wave of 15 pardons, and five sentence commutations also includes several of Trump’s GOP allies and four Blackwater guards convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad. Former Trump...