as joe biden was preparing to be sworn in as president, the former guy, the outgoing president, was very, very busy that day, signing pardons and commutations for a whole gallery, 143 pardons and commutations on his last day in office alone, a pardon for steve bannon who ran his 2016 campaign. bannon was facing fraud charges relating to that build-the-wall scheme. a pardon for elliott brady, who was vice chair of the trump inaugural committee. he had pled guilty to being a foreign agent. you ll recall the chairman of the trump inaugural committee tom barrack was also more recently charged as a foreign agent. remember the russian operative charged with infiltrating, trump
gallery, 143 pardons and commutations on his last day in office alone. a pardon for steve bannon who ran his 2016 tam pain. bannon was facing fraud charges relating to that build the wall scheme. a pardon for elliott boydy who was vice chair of the trump inaugural committee. he had pled guilty to being a foreign agent. you ll recall the chairman of the trump inaugural committee tom barrack was also more recently charged as a foreign agent. remember the russian operative charged with infiltrating, trump decided to pardon her boyfriend. okay, he pardoned former republican congressman convicted on corruption charges, several of them. he pardoned ponzi schemers and
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circle. a former advisor and a man who was the chairman of the trump inaugural committee tom barrack has been arrested for illegal foreign lobbying, capitalizing on barrack s status with trump to, quote, advance the interests of and provide intelligence to the uae while simultaneously failing to notify the attorney general that their actions were taken at the direction of senior uae officials. barrack is one of many people in donald trump s orbit who are facing charges or have been convicted or are under investigation. joining me is elliot williams, cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor and former deputy assistant attorney general. barrack was acting secretly as a foreign agent, obstructed justice and lied to the fbi, according to the indictment. what kind of trouble is he facing? pretty serious trouble.