While former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was pardoned overnight in the final hours of Donald Trump's presidency, he still can't hold state or local office for about 13 more years.
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The 45th president pardoned 140 people in his final hours in office, including some with North Carolina ties. (Shutterstock)
NORTH CAROLINA President Donald Trump issued a flurry of pardons and commuted sentences in the final hours of his presidency, including at least four with ties to North Carolina.
Trump granted pardons to 73 people and commuted the sentences of another 70 as one of his final acts before leaving office Wednesday.
Notably, he did not pardon himself or any members of his family or former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, his personal attorney.
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In North Carolina, Trump pardoned Robert Cannon Robin Hayes, Patrick Swisher, James Hayes and Drew Boggs.
A Trumpist Party? Trump Pardons Strategist Bannon, Top Fundraiser Broidy, Ex-GOP Representatives
Donald Trump and his chief strategist Steve Bannon in the White House, January 22, 2017 (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty)
Signalling that he wants to build a Trumpist party, inside or outside the Republicans, Donald Trump pardons his former strategist Steve Bannon, top 2016 fundraiser Elliott Broidy, and former US Representatives.
Trump handed out 143 pardons, some of them pre-emptive, and commutations of sentences just before leaving Washington as Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th US President.
They follow dozens issued by Trump since last month, including of his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, his self-proclaimed “political dirty trickster” Roger Stone, ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, three former Representatives convicted on campaign and finance charges, and four Blackwater paramilitary personnel who killed Iraqi civilians.
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President Donald Trump s former chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks with reporters after pleading not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a southern border wall, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)AP
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Just before leaving office Wednesday, President Donald Trump approved a slew of clemency decisions, including an array of convicted friends, political aides, rap performers, ex-members of Congress and financial fraudsters.
The most prominent name on the list of 73 pardons and 70 commutations was Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon. Bannon has been charged with duping thousands of donors who believed their money would be used to fulfill Trump’s chief campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border. Instead, he alleged