as joe biden was preparing to be sworn in as president, the former guy, the outgoing president, was very, very busy that day, signing pardons and commutations for a whole gallery, 143 pardons and commutations on his last day in office alone, a pardon for steve bannon who ran his 2016 campaign. bannon was facing fraud charges relating to that build-the-wall scheme. a pardon for elliott brady, who was vice chair of the trump inaugural committee. he had pled guilty to being a foreign agent. you'll recall the chairman of the trump inaugural committee tom barrack was also more recently charged as a foreign agent. remember the russian operative charged with infiltrating, trump