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On The Final Day: A 100 Pardons by Trump. Who Will They be? Published January 18th, 2021 - 11:38 GMT
In this file photo taken on October 19, 2020 US President Donald Trump dances as he leaves a rally at Tucson International Airport in Tucson, Arizona. MANDEL NGAN / AFP
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Sources do not expect pardon list to include Trump s name, after being impeached one more time over US Capitol breach.
Outgoing US President Donald Trump reportedly is planning to issue about 100 pardons and commutations on Tuesday, his final full day in office.
Citing people familiar with the matter, CNN reported Monday that the White House held a meeting on Sunday to finalize the list of pardons and for now it is not expected to include Trump himself.
December 28, 2020
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Cuba on Monday blasted the US move to issue pardons for war criminals convicted of killing civilians in Iraq.
“The pardons granted to war criminals hired by the US as mercenaries say much about both the perpetrators and the government that hired and pardoned them,” Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said on Twitter.
His remarks came days after US President Donald Trump pardoned four employees of Blackwater Security Consulting, an American private military company, who killed civilians in Iraq and were found guilty by a US court in 2014.
Employees shot at Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad on Sept. 16, 2007, as they were escorting a US embassy convoy.
US Continues to Pardon War Criminals in Iraq, Afghanistan December 26,2020
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump announcing this week a wave of pardons was the latest in a series of wielding his clemency powers over the years for war criminals that were convicted of killing civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. As US presidents have used their authority for more than two hundred years to offer second chances to some Americans, Trump has issued 70 pardons during his time in the White House as of Wednesday. Trump s executive clemency, however, keeps adding controversial military figures after he pardoned four employees of an American private military company who killed civilians in Iraq and were found guilty by a US court in 2014.