Trump pardons 15 people including Blackwater security contractors behind 2007 Baghdad ‘massacre’
23 Dec 2020 This combination made from file photo shows Blackwater guards, from (L) Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough. AP
US President Donald Trump pardoned four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone.
Trump also granted pardons to two people linked to a probe into alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia along with a list of others as time ticks away on his remaining weeks in office.
Trump pardons 15, including Republican allies and campaign official ensnared in Russia probe
The pardons include former Republican Reps. Duncan Hunter of California and Chris Collins of New York.
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WASHINGTON President Trump on Tuesday 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.
Then-U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter leaves federal court on July 1, 2019, after a motions hearing in San Diego.
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Trump’s 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. Trump issued the pardons not an unusual act for an outgoing president even as he refused to publicly acknowledge his election
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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned 15 people, including 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 also commuted the sentences of five others. While it is not unusual for presidents to grant clemency on their way out the door, Trump has made clear that he has no qualms about intervening in the cases of friends and allies whom he believes have been treated unfairly. Despite speculation, though, not on the list were members of Trump’s own family, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and the president himself.