Who did Trump pardon? Rappers, dad in college bribery scheme, kingpin involved in officer’s murder
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
President Donald Trump s former chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks with reporters after pleading not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a southern border wall, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)AP
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Just before leaving office Wednesday, President Donald Trump approved a slew of clemency decisions, including an array of convicted friends, political aides, rap performers, ex-members of Congress and financial fraudsters.
The most prominent name on the list of 73 pardons and 70 commutations was Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon. Bannon has been charged with duping thousands of donors who believed their money would be used to fulfill Trump’s chief campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border. Instead, he alleged
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly used his clemency authority as a political tool rather than an act of mercy, issued a final wave of pardons and commutations during his final hours in office, delivering relief for a mix of beneficiaries that included former strategist Steve Bannon, Republican Party and Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, found guilty in 2013 of corruption charges.
He granted pardons to 73 people and commuted the sentences of 70, according to a news release from the White House on Wednesday, before he pardoned one more roughly an hour before Joe Biden was sworn in as the new president.
Here are the 143 people Donald Trump pardoned the night before he left office, plus one revealed in his final minutes
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In the final hours of his presidency, Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of 144 people.
The first list, which included 143 names issued the night before Joe Biden s inauguration, included former White House aide
Michael Liberty, a former Portland property developer convicted in 2016 of illegal campaign finance violations, was pardoned Tuesday by President Donald Trump.