Pardons
Trump pardons ex-strategist Steve Bannon, dozens of others
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon in the final hours of his White House term as part of a flurry of clemency action that benefited more than 140 people, including rap performers, ex-members of Congress and other allies of him and his family. The last-minute clemency, announced after midnight …
BREAKING: Trump includes Robin Hayes in last-minute flurry of pardons at Tillis’s request
Former GOP Chairman Robin Hayes (L), Sen. Thom Tillis (R) Former North Carolina Congressman, state Representative, gubernatorial candidate and state Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes is among the scores of individuals granted presidential pardons by President Trump as one of his last acts. …
Trump to issue around 100 pardons and commutations Tuesday, sources say
The White House held a meeting on Sunday to finalize the list of pardons, two sources said. Trump, who had been rolling out pardons and commutations at a steady clip ahead of Christmas, had put a pause on them in the days leading up to and directly after the January 6 riots at the US …
Prospect of Pardons in Final Days Fuels Market to Buy Access to Trump
WASHINGTON — As President Trump prepares to leave office in days, a lucrative market for pardons is coming to a head, with some of his allies collecting fees from wealthy felons or their associates to push the White House for clemency, according to documents and interviews with more than three dozen lobbyists and lawyers. The …
Pardons: Trump probably can’t pardon himself. He may still try
Between now and then, we can expect to see the last-minute pardon-fest undertaken by most presidents — which any betting person would wager Trump is going to undertake in a very big way. Trump has already commuted the sentence of his informal adviser Roger Stone. But his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, is still in …
