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As Republican state legislatures seek to pass a wave of bills restricting voting rights and the right to protest, there’s one key wedge issue that continues to drive conservative voters to keep these lawmakers in office. Meghan Milloy, Founder & Executive Director of “Republican Women for Progress” and bestselling author Matt Dowd, Founder of “Country Over Party” and Former Chief Strategist of the Bush-Cheney administration, join American Voices with Alicia Menendez to discuss the state of the post-Trump Republican Party.May 9, 2021
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WASHINGTON: President Donald 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 Steve Bannon, his former chief strategist, and Elliott Broidy, one of his top fundraisers in 2016. The wave of clemency grants underscored how many of his close associates and supporters became ensnared in corruption cases and other legal troubles. Trump, however, did not pardon himself, family members or lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
The latest round of pardons and commutations 143 in total followed dozens last month, when Trump pardoned associates like Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. Bannon was under indictment on charges that he misused money he helped raise for a group backing Trump’s wall but had not yet gone to trial. Broidy pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate foreign lobbying laws as part of a covert campaign to influence the Trump administration on behalf of Chinese and