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Who has Trump pardoned? A full list OLD Read full article January 20, 2021, 3:58 AM·20 min read Oops! Donald Trump, pictured on December 7, 2020, has been pardoning allies before leaving office next month (AFP via Getty Images) Donald Trump used his final hours as president to issue a slew of 143 pardons and commutations of sentence to friends and allies as he prepared to reluctantly hand over power to his Democratic successor Joe Biden. A meeting with his inner circle at the White House on Sunday saw Mr Trump finalise the clemency list, a source told CNN. Despite much speculation, he ultimately decided against issuing pre-emptive pardons to himself or members of his family or to the likes of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or
Donald Trump Pardon List—Every Person Granted Clemency by the President On 1/19/21 at 12:23 PM EST President Donald Trump was expected to pardon more than 100 people in his final hours in office. The list of people Trump pardoned was announced early on Wednesday, and revealed that Trump pardoned 73 people and commuted the sentences of 70 more. Among those hoping to be pardoned were some rioters who stormed the Capitol building earlier in January, though they were not pardoned by the president. "They'll be another abuse of power by a corrupt, failed, one-term, twice-impeached president who has routinely undermined the rule of law, the constitution, and our democracy."
Others who received pardons included two former Republican congressmen who admitted committing financial-related crimes. Trump also commuted all or some of the criminal sentences of five other people, as the president faces his last month in office. One of those people, south Florida health-care facility owner Philip Esformes, was sentenced in September 2019 to 20 years in prison for what prosecutors said was "the largest health care fraud ever charged by the Department of Justice." Esformes, 52, will now be freed from prison because of Trump's action. Trump, who has been harshly critical of Muller's investigation into his 2016 campaign and its contacts with Russians, pardoned his former campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos, who had been convicted of making false statements during that probe.