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.
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The last-minute clemency, announced Wednesday morning, follows separate waves of pardons over the past month for Trump associates convicted in the FBI’s Russia investigation as well as for the father of his son-in-law.
What did Kwame Kilpatrick do? Donald Trump commutes prison sentence of ex-Detroit Mayor!
As a part of his long list of pardoned and commutes, Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of this ex-Mayor, but what did Kwame Kilpatrick do?
Kwame Kilpatrick served as mayor of Detroit between 2002 to 2008, when he resigned as a part of a plea deal, separate from his latest charges. In 2008 he pled guilty to obstruction of justice in a different case involving explicit text messages and an affair with his chief of staff.
During his last day in office, Donald Trump pardoned the convictions of 73 individuals, and commuted 70 more. Pardoning removes the existence of the criminal charge, while commuting simply shortens the time in prison.