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Trump Pardon List: POTUS Grants 20 People Executive Clemency Days Before Christmas
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Among those pardoned are four Blackwater guards who murdered 17 Iraqi civilians
He also pardoned former congressman Hunter who pled guilty to misusing campaign funds
President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a wave of executive clemencies including the pardons of four military contractors involved in a fatal shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians just days before the Christmas holiday.
Trump’s recent lame-duck pardons kicks off what many expect to be a series of clemencies in the final weeks of his presidential term. Before Tuesday’s pardons, the president granted 28 pardons and 16 commutations during his tenure, including the Nov. 25 full pardon of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Columnist explains why Trump is unsurpassed in abusing the pardon powers Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ
President Donald Trump is hardly the first U.S. president to draw criticism for the presidential pardons he has granted, but it is safe to say that Trump s pardons have been especially controversial â for example, the ones he announced on Tuesday, December 22, including pardons for Blackwater employees jailed for killing Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007. The Washington Post s Ruth Marcus, in an op-ed published the following day, lays out some reasons why Trump s pardons have been especially egregious.
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The pardons included former Republican Reps. Duncan Hunter of California and Chris Collins of New York.
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.
Hunter was sentenced to 11 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing campaign funds and spending the money on everything from outings with friends to his daughter’s birthday party.
Former Rep. Duncan D. Hunter spoke exclusively with KUSI’s Logan Byrnes on Good Evening San Diego shortly after he was pardoned. Hunter explained that he had no idea a pardon was coming, but he had a feeling President Trump would “do the right thing, and he did.”