With Hours Left in Office, Trump Grants Clemency to Bannon and Other Allies
The president continued using his power to help his supporters, including his former chief strategist and one of his top 2016 fund-raisers.
Stephen K. Bannon in 2017 at the White House. He was under indictment on charges that he misused money he helped raise for a group backing President Trump’s border wall.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Published Jan. 20, 2021Updated March 21, 2021
WASHINGTON President Trump used his final hours in office to wipe away convictions and prison sentences for a roster of corrupt politicians and business executives and bestow pardons on allies like Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist, and Elliott Broidy, one of his top fund-raisers in 2016.