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Trump issues pardons before leaving office, some connected to the Mid-South By Brandon Richard | January 20, 2021 at 7:02 PM CST - Updated January 20 at 7:08 PM
In a midnight release, the Trump White House shared the names of 143 people who had been granted clemency by the outgoing president. Trump pardoned 73 people and commuted the sentences for 70 others.
His former chief strategist Steve Bannon is the most recognizable name on the pardon list.
People with Mid-South connections also received a pardon.
Robert Corkern, a doctor in Mississippi who was convicted of bribery, received a pardon. Trump officials said the pardon was recommended by Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant.
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