President
Donald Trump pardoned 15 people and commuted the sentences of an additional five people on Tuesday (December 22). The biggest name to receive a presidential pardon was former Trump campaign advisor
George Papadopoulos, who was convicted of making false statements to investigators during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference.
Alex van der Zwaan, who also pleaded guilty to lying to investigators, received a pardon as well.
Duncan Hunter, a former GOP congressman from California and a Trump ally, was also pardoned after pleading guilty to misusing campaign funds last December.
Chris Collins, who was the first sitting Republican lawmaker to endorse President Trump, was pardoned after receiving 26 months in jail for securities fraud.
President
Donald Trump pardoned 15 people and commuted the sentences of an additional five people on Tuesday (December 22). The biggest name to receive a presidential pardon was former Trump campaign advisor
George Papadopoulos, who was convicted of making false statements to investigators during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference.
Alex van der Zwaan, who also pleaded guilty to lying to investigators, received a pardon as well.
Duncan Hunter, a former GOP congressman from California and a Trump ally, was also pardoned after pleading guilty to misusing campaign funds last December.
Chris Collins, who was the first sitting Republican lawmaker to endorse President Trump, was pardoned after receiving 26 months in jail for securities fraud.
President
Donald Trump pardoned 15 people and commuted the sentences of an additional five people on Tuesday (December 22). The biggest name to receive a presidential pardon was former Trump campaign advisor
George Papadopoulos, who was convicted of making false statements to investigators during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference.
Alex van der Zwaan, who also pleaded guilty to lying to investigators, received a pardon as well.
Duncan Hunter, a former GOP congressman from California and a Trump ally, was also pardoned after pleading guilty to misusing campaign funds last December.
Chris Collins, who was the first sitting Republican lawmaker to endorse President Trump, was pardoned after receiving 26 months in jail for securities fraud.
Trump grants clemency to 20 people, including three former GOP members of Congress and two men convicted in the Russia probe Rosalind Helderman, Matt Zapotosky, Josh Dawsey
Trump grants clemency to 20 people
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Replay Video UP NEXT President Trump granted clemency on Tuesday to 20 people, including three former Republican members of Congress and two people who were convicted of crimes as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He also pardoned four military contractors convicted of killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007, and extended clemency to several people convicted of drug offenses, including some who had already benefited from initial commutations.
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President Trump on Tuesday announced a wave of 15 pardons and commutations, including clemency for high-profile individuals convicted during the Mueller investigation, three former Republican congressmen, and four military contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians.
Among those pardoned by the president are George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the 2016 Trump campaign who pled guilty to lying to the FBI during the Russia investigation and spent 12 days in jail, and Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch lawyer who pled guilty to lying to Mueller investigators and served 30 days in prison.