Welcome Back TJR readers! Did you spend all day Friday trying to get an appointment for a vaccine and missed Smackdown. Perhaps you spent all day Monday waiting for a Presidential Pardon and missed Raw. Worry not, for I have returned with another edition of The Top Ten Wrestling Stories of the Week to catch you up.
10. Jason Jordan Planning Return to the Ring
Kurt Angle’s illegitimate son may be returning to a WWE ring. Chad Gable appeared on WWE’s The Bump this week, and announced that his old American Alpha partner Jason Jordan is training for an in-ring return. Jordan has not competed in a WWE ring, since suffering a serious neck injury in 2018. We will have to wait and see if Jordan can return to a ring, but when your storyline father won a gold medal with a broken neck there is a chance. (WrestlingInc)
NEW ORLEANS â Former President Donald Trump issued a late-night pardon to a New Orleans criminal justice advocate who was jailed as a teenager.
Now, the mistake that s haunted Syrita Steib for 20 years is officially a part of her past.
âI think Iâm still trying to soak it all in,â Steib said Wednesday afternoon, just hours after learning she was pardoned from her criminal past.
Former New Orleans Saints player Benjamin Watson advocated for Steibâs freedom. Tuesday night, Trump pardoned Steib and 142 others, including New Orleans rapper Lilâ Wayne.
âReally, really thankful to God that he can use any vessel to bless you,â Steib said.
The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
Getting audio file . This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
A batch of more than 140 pardons and sentence commutations in the final hours of Donald Trump’s presidency highlighted the growing politicization of clemency, divorced from the initial goals of mercy and serving the public good.
Stephen Bannon, a key strategist behind Mr. Trump’s 2016 election triumph, was among several former political cronies who received presidential pardons. Others included Elliott Broidy, a major Republican donor, and three former Republican members of Congress, two of whom had served jail time for corruption. Previous pardons have gone to Paul Manafort, campaign chairman during part of the 2016 run; Roger Stone, a friend and political adviser; and Michael Flynn,