Utah Rep. Phil Lyman receives presidential pardon for ATV ride on protected land Kyle Dunphey and Associated Press © Rick Bowmer, AP 20151218 San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman arrives at the federal courthouse on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015, in Salt Lake City. Lyman was sentenced to 10 days in jail and three years of probation for an illegal ATV protest ride in a southern Utah canyon. President Donald Trump pardoned him Tuesday.
SALT LAKE CITY Utah state Rep. Phil Lyman and local music producer Weldon Angelos are among the 20 people who either had their sentences commuted or received pardons from President Donald Trump Tuesday.
Trump pardons 15, including GOP allies in Congress
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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 loyalists and others who he believes have been wronged by a legal system he sees as biased against him and his allies. On Tuesday, Trump issued the pardons not an unusual act for an outgoing president even as he refused to publicly acknowledge his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden, who will be sworn in on Jan. 20.
The US President is under fire by Democrats for granting pardons to all “his friends” George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who triggered the Russia investigation, arrives for his first appearance before congressional investigators, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo: AAP via AP /Carolyn Kaster, File
23 December 2020 4:01pm
US President Donald Trump issued 15 pardons before Christmas that have all been condemned by Democrats as attempts to exonerate “his friends”.
Amongst those who have been granted a full pardon are disgraced congressmen and four men convicted over a 2007 massacre of civilians in Iraq.
Mr Trump, also pardoned his former campaign aide George Papadopoulos, 33, who pleaded guilty for lying to FBI agents as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.