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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...

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...

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...

Trump grants clemency to 20 people, including three former GOP members of Congress and two men convicted in the Russia probe Rosalind Helderman, Matt Zapotosky, Josh Dawsey Trump grants clemency to 20 people Replay Video Replay Video UP NEXT President Trump granted clemency on Tuesday to 20 people, including three former Republican members of Congress and two people who were convicted of crimes as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential el...

Trump pardons 15, commutes 5 sentences By COLLEEN LONG, KEVIN FREKING and ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans who were strong and early supporters, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad. Trump’s actions in his final weeks in office show a president who is wielding his executive power to reward loya...

Trump pardons 15 including Republican allies, contractors convicted in Baghdad massacre AP/Washington Filed on December 23, 2020 US Rep Chris Collins, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters as he leaves the courthouse after a pretrial hearing in his insider-trading case, in New York in 2019. Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Trump to be president, was sentenced to two years and two months in federal prison after admitting he helped his son and others dodge $800,000 in stock market l...

Trump’s wave of pardons includes campaign aide, former congressmen In this Dec. 7, 2020, photo, President Donald Trump is in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) by: Pamela Brown, Kevin Liptak and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Posted: Dec 22, 2020 / 08:44 PM EST (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a wave of lame duck pardons, including two for men who pleaded guilty in Robert Mueller’s investigation, as well as ones for Republ...

Trump pardons Papadopoulos and former Republican members of Congress in raft of clemency grants John Fritze, David Jackson, Michael Collins and Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY Presidential pardons: Which president used their power the most? Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump granted a pardon late Tuesday to George Papadopoulos, a former campaign aide who admitted lying to the FBI, as well as two former Republican members of Congress who were early supporters o...

Prez Trump issues 15 full pardons and 5 commutations on Festivus eve As detailed in this White House press release, titled "Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency," Prez Trump issued a set of notable clemency grants this evening.  Here are the basics from the statement: 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 f...

FACTBOX-List of 15 people pardoned by Trump Reuters 12/23/2020 WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Two men sentenced to prison as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, two former Republican lawmakers, and four security contractors convicted in the massacre of 14 Iraqi civilians were among 15 people granted full pardons by U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Trump also commuted all or part of the sentences of five other people. Those pardoned by Trum...