Trump grants 20 pardons, commutations including George Papadopoulos
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President Donald Trump granted 20 pardons and commutations Tuesday including former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, two former Republican congressmen and four former Blackwater Worldwide military contractors. Photo by Yuri Gripas/UPI | License Photo
Dec. 22 (UPI) President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a flurry of 20 pardons and commutations as his term in the White House comes to an end.
The pardons issued Tuesday include two men who pleaded guilty in former special counsel Robert Mueller s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, two former Republican congressmen and four former Blackwater Worldwide military contractors responsible for the shooting deaths of 14 Iraqis in 2007.
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As his tenure enters final month, Trump pardons Blackwater contractors convicted of killing civilians in Iraq
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President Donald Trump has pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans who were strong and early supporters, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad.
Trump s actions in his final weeks in office show a president who is wielding his executive power to reward loyalists and others who he believes have been wronged by a legal system he sees as biased against him and his allies.
On Tuesday, Trump issued the pardons - not an unusual act for an outgoing president - even as he refused to publicly acknowledge his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden, who will be sworn in on Jan. 20.
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FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, file photo, U.S. Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters as he leaves the courthouse after a pretrial hearing in his insider-trading case, in New York. On Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, President Donald Trump pardoned 15 people, including Collins. Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Trump to be president, was sentenced to two years and two months in federal prison after admitting he helped his son and others dodge $800,000 in stock market losses when he learned that a drug trial by a small pharmaceutical company had failed. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)