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From Blackwater Contractors to Ex-Campaign Aides: Who’s Who of Donald Trump's 'Lame Duck' Pardons © REUTERS / CHERISS MAY Subscribe Donald Trump announced a wave of pardons on Tuesday to over a dozen individuals ahead of his anticipated exit from the White House, after his Democratic opponent in the election on 3 November Joe Biden was officially proclaimed President-elect. Donald Trump on Tuesday granted clemency to a slew of convicted criminals, in line with a tradition for outgoing 'lame duck' Presidents during their final months in office. Ac...

Trump pardons former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, ex-GOP congressmen and others Dartunorro Clark © Provided by NBC News President Donald Trump pardoned former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos on Tuesday, along with over a dozen other people, including several former congressmen who have long been Republican allies of the president. The White House said in a statement that Trump was granting full pardons to 15 people and commuting parts or all of the sentences of five others. Among those granted clemency were Republican former Reps. Duncan Hunter of California an...

FBI Listened to Papadopoulos’s Call on Elusive Grounds, Documents Indicate News Analysis The FBI listened to at least one phone call of former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, according to a recently released text message of Peter Strzok, former head of FBI counterintelligence operations. The text raises the question of what authority the FBI had to conduct such surveillance, particularly because, based on the text, the call with the Fox News executive took place on Jan. 11, 2017, two weeks before Papadopoulos’s voluntary FBI interview during which he later admitted he lied. Lying...

Campaign. let's put this race into the bigger context of 201 and what some see as the shrinking center. joining us erick erickson, roland martin and dana bash. roland, obama carried in 2008. i'll go to the map and lay this out. already it's iffy if you come out thinking tea party, republican year, looking at virginia saying not so sure now you have a senate race. >> although he carried it it was a still a state going back and forth. remember mark warner, he won. webb had a tough race when he won. republicans, bob mcconnell wins the governor's mansion and attorney general's race and that is a s...