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Trump’s Christmas Pardon Spree SHARE Last week, Christmas came early for various disgraced GOP congressmen, presidential cronies who didn’t “rat,” and a latter‐​day Lt. William Calley, thanks to a flurry of pardons issued by President Trump. As the 25th approached, I half‐​expected “45” to wind up his clemency spree with a big present for himself. A Christmas Day self‐​pardon would have been a fitting capstone to the ‘Me’ Presidency”: “?On the first day of Christmas/​my true love (me) gave to me/​a pre‐​emptive pardon in a.…?”—eh, you ...

Trump wields pardon power as political weapon, rewarding loyalists and undermining prosecutors Toluse Olorunnipa, Josh Dawsey Replay Video UP NEXT WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. —Among the dozens of people who received pardons from President Trump this week were several who lied to investigators and obstructed a federal probe into the president's links to Russia. Some had personal connections to Trump or his most loyal backers. A handful were Republican lawmakers rewarded for fealty to the president after betraying the public trust. Others abused their authority in more violent way...

After criticism of pardons, Trump uses them on allies Michael Kranish, The Washington Post Dec. 23, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail As Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016, his vow to "drain the swamp" included outrage at past use of presidential pardons. Citing the way President Bill Clinton had pardoned a fugitive financier during his last week in office, Trump fumed, "People couldn't believe it." Yet now, in the closing days of his term, Trump has added to his portfolio of pardons and commutations several people who seemed to exemplify the very swamp that Trump said he would drain...

Iraqis express anger after Trump pardoned four guards convicted in the 2007 Baghdad massacre that killed at least 14.

Trump vowed to drain the swamp. Then he granted clemency to three former congressmen convicted of federal crimes. Michael Kranish Replay Video UP NEXT As Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency in 2016, his vow to “drain the swamp” included outrage at past use of presidential pardons. Citing the way President Bill Clinton had pardoned a fugitive financier during his last week in office, Trump fumed, “People couldn’t believe it.” Yet now, in the closing days of his term, Trump has added to his portfolio of pardons and commutations several people who seemed to...