Donald Trump s Departure Was a Perfect Visual for His Entire Life Charles P. Pierce © Pete Marovich - Getty Images If there were ever a mural dedicated to the man s public career, it would be of dogs playing poker around a golden commode.
Gone.
Fly away, little asterisk. You have done good service, and now you must rest. Soon, we will call on you again, this time to designate a former president , or an ex-president , as he prepares for his new career as a professional defendant. But, for now, you may sleep the sleep of the just and the justified. You have run the race. You have stayed the course. You have kept the faith.
Trump pardons ex-strategist Steve Bannon, dozens of others
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Trump Pardons Lil Wayne, Steve Bannon, But Not Himself, Or Julian Assange
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19 Jan 2021
President Donald Trump announced late Tuesday night that he had pardoned and commuted the sentences of 143 people in the final hours of his presidency.
The president issued 73 pardons and 70 commutations.
The list included pop culture figures including rapper Lil Wayne, who was pardoned, and Kodak Black, whose sentence was commuted.
The president also pardoned several Republicans, including former Deputy National Finance Chair of the Republican National Committee Elliott Broidy, former Rep. Duke Cunningham of California, and former Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona.
He also issued a pardon for his former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who was charged with fraud for his work on the “We Build the Wall” crowdfunding campaign fueled by Trump supporters to build a wall on the Southern border.
Flurry of Trump pardons follows lobbying by well-connected lawyers
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President Donald Trump pardoned 73 people and commuted the sentences of 70 others late Tuesday in a move that favored some of his associates and supporters, including former chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Trump granted a full pardon to Bannon after he was charged with defrauding donors to an online crowdfunding campaign for the border wall, report the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico and the National Law Journal. A White House press release is here.
Also pardoned was former Nixon Peabody partner David Tamman, according to the National Law Journal. Tamman was convicted for altering financial documents that were the subject of a federal investigation. Prosecutors had alleged that Tamman helped hide a Ponzi scheme by his client, John Farahi, the founder of NewPoint Financial Services. Tamman had been represented on appeal by Alan Dershowitz, a prof