makes it all the more concerning when you look at how many of trump s pardons carried the stink of political patronage and best in corrupt self-interest at worst. according to pew research center over the course of his four years in office trump only granted 237 acts of clemency. that s the third lowest number of pardons for any president in history. only the two president bush is pardoned fewer people. it would seem that trump was extremely selective about who he pardoned. still some of his pardons were widely praised. like alice johnson in 2020 who was serving life in prison for a nonviolent drug conviction. he posthumously pardoned the historical figure season being anthony, arrested for voting illegally. in 1870 to inject johnson the first black heavyweight boxing champ who is subject to a racist conviction in 1913 for transporting a white woman across state lines. but he also pardoned a robes gallery of political figures including many of his own associates. some of whom
Looking up. To the people we all believed in areas that. You did. And he. Was going. To be one of you to be carried to reach out to the opposition to reach out to people who dont really feel that they are. Going to make you. Think a lot of people say to you that you dont. Catherine saw a at cassani stadium thank you lets check in with the miller now who was not far from where the ceremonies taking place in another area of nairobi where the opposition was planning a rally earlier today to protest against aurukun yachters inauguration but they have been preventing prevented rather from reaching the place where they wanted to hold that ronnie by the police from the miller is there for us even as a war kenyatta is being inaugurated even as is sworn in lot of questions about his legitimacy and were seeing that today with these protests on the day hes inaugurated. Thats always been the question throughout this election process especially after the first election which was by the Supreme Cour
Protests. Come fully back to you watching aljazeera live from our headquarters in doha also coming up Syrian Government strikes kill at least nineteen people ahead of a new round of talks which look to be in trouble even before they begin. A left wing t. V. Host on track to be the next president of honduras plus we have a representative in congress who they say was your long time ago the color Pocahontas Donald trump is accused of making a racist slur jaring an event honoring native American Veterans. We begin in kenya who are kenyatta is expected to deliver a message of unity when he is shortly so on in for a second and final term as kenyan president the ceremony follows four months of often violent evil which left more than fifty people dead the Opposition Leader raul has evolved to fight on again skin yet his presidency he and his supporters have organized protest rallies to coincide with the inauguration ceremony youre watching live pictures there from nairobi so how did we get her
Of us bleakest reports yet on human rights and singles out myanmar for its treatment of the. International pressure mounts on syria to end the bombing in eastern good. I dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. Wrong motions from survivors of the Florence School shooting as they share their anger and grief when the president tries. The latest news from the Winter Olympics including the usa and a twenty year wait to win the womens ice hockey gold after a tense shootout with canada. Global leaders including donald trump and change in paying undermining human rights thats the warning from Amnesty Internationals makes us report it said the man joined a number of other World Leaders and rolling out progressive policies last year or trump was singled out for his controversial travel ban for people from six muslim majority countries other report also highlights atrocities including myanmars military crackdown on the hunger Patty Culhane has more from washington
Blocks the efforts by the United Nations Security Council to call for a thirty day ceasefire across the country. Along so robin youre watching aljazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up on the Divided Island of cyprus why gas revenue is proving to be a further wedge between greek and Turkish Cypriots. Also the australian late they could become one of the Worlds Largest batteries. Company welcome to aljazeera its been under siege by Syrian Government forces for five years but the last five days have been the worst so far for civilians in the rebel held eastern guta near the capital damascus road. Lentulus bombardment killed dozens more on thursday bringing the number of dead to more than four hundred more than a thousand people have been injured the military has dropped leaflets over the area urging residents to leave and calling on opposition fighters to hand themselves over meanwhile the un Security Council is struggling to pass a resolution on a ceasefire allowing aid