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Search results for LeftThe lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation reacts to President Trump pardoning Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager who pleaded guilty to multiple crimes.
During a 2019 interview with PBS, Chris Christie explained why he decided he had to prosecute Charles Kushner, father of Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, while US attorney. Trump has since issued Kushner a full pardon.
President Donald Trump announced a wave of lame duck pardons, including two for men who pleaded guilty in Robert Mueller's investigation, as well as ones for Republican allies who once served in Congress and military contractors involved in a deadly shooting …
A preemptive pardon could come in handy after all.
"This is as fundamentally corrupt as a pardon gets," says Chris Hayes on Pres. Trump pardoning Paul Manafort, his 2016 campaign chairman, and Roger Stone, his longtime associate.
Daniel R. Alonso writes that it is legally possible for Donald Trump's next wave of pardons to be issued in secret for friends and family before he leaves office. A secret pardon would enable them to keep clemency in their back pockets, while at the same time…
Michael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump has circumvented the Justice Department process for approving pardon applications, and the high percentage of Trump pardons that are tied to one …
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) says the commander-in-chief is meant to set the “tone and tenor” of the military, and Donald Trump’s pardon of four Blackwater contractors convicted in an Iraqi massacre sends the “exact opposite message” of how service members should c…
More than a year and a half ago, special counsel Robert Mueller had caught on to what President Donald Trump might do with his pardon power.
Search results for Center-LeftOne of the people President Donald Trump pardoned this week is a wealthy real estate executive, Charles Kushner, who is the father of Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner
President Donald Trump issued a second round of pardons Wednesday, just weeks before his time in the White House comes to a close.
Trump granted a full pardon Tuesday to Hunter, who was set to begin an 11-month sentence at a federal prison in two weeks after pleading guilty to stealing campaign funds for personal use.
Republican members of Congress who have spoken with the president recently view him as increasingly malleable to their suggestions in his closing days.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a flurry of pardons and commutations to a slew of controversial figures with ties to his administration.
Campaign aide among 15 people, including two Republican legislators, granted full pardons by outgoing US president.
After cutting Sidney Powell from his legal team, President Trump has welcomed her back into the White House to plot out further efforts to revive his presidency.
Trump’s corrosive use of the pardon power and his rush to execute federal death row inmates will cement his presidency as one of the most unjust in history.
Search results for CenterThe couple were convicted of the hoax in 2009 after saying their son was carried away by a balloon.
President Trump began his expected pardon spree on Tuesday, issuing 20 pardons and commutations. Driving the news: Convicted former Reps. Duncan Hunter, Chris Collins — the first two congressman to endorse Trump in the 2016 election — and Russia probe figures…
Here's a side-by-side look at President-elect Biden's Cabinet so far, paired with President Trump's debut Cabinet from 2017.Graphic: Danielle Alberti/AxiosBetween the lines: Biden added a Cabinet-rank post Trump didn't have: former Secretary of State John Ker…
President Trump granted full pardons to 26 more people on Wednesday night, including his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, longtime associate Roger Stone and Charles Kushner, the father of Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.Why it matte…
DALLAS (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent years dodging legal and public relations blows that might have knocked others out of politics. The Republican has so far proven too wily...
It’s a white, joyous Christmas for convicts with connections to President Trump. The justice system — and the law enforcers who worked years to prosecute these cases — got a big lump of coal. Why it matters: A senior administration official with no role in th…
WASHINGTON (AP) — For a second night in a row, President Donald Trump issued a round of pardons and commutations in the final weeks of his presidency, giving full pardons to his former campaign...
Advisers to President Trump tell Axios three forces drove last night's twin bombshells — a slew of pardons for his allies, and a last-hour attack on the $900 billion stimulus bill as a "disgrace."1. Because he can: As Jonathan Swan has explained, Trump loves …
Search results for Center-RightAs he fights the election results, the embattled president weighs an array of last-minute pardon options as wide-ranging as any in US history. The post Trump’s Pardon Farrago: Assange, Snowden, Giuliani, His Family, Himself? appeared first on The American Co…
If extradited and convicted, Assange faces a maximum sentence of 175 years for the “crime” of publishing. The post Trump Should Pardon Assange, Keep Him From the ‘Hands of the Deep State’ appeared first on The American Conservative.
Search results for RightIncoming Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who won her election on a staunchly pro-Trump message, has joined a chorus of voices calling for a presidential pardon for the founder of WikiLeaks, journalist Julian Assange.
CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers said on Wednesday's broadcast of "The Situation Room" that President Donald Trump’s pardon of four former Blackwater security guards who were convicted of a massacre in Baghdad that killed a dozen Iraqi civilians is a…
President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to former U.S. Border Patrol agent and Coast Guard veteran Gary Brugman. The pardon follows by one day the President's action to pardon two other former agents.
George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser for Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and author, expressed his gratitude Wednesday for being among the group of presidential pardons and commutations as President Donald Trump's term in the White House co…
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin added her voice to the growing chorus of conservative figures favoring a pardon of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
President Donald Trump issued another round of pardons on Wednesday to sixteen people, including his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, his sometimes adviser Roger Stone, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner's father, Charlie Kushner.
Papadopoulos was charged with one count of making false statements during Special Counsel Robert Muller's investigation into accusations of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia.
Andrew Weissmann, the lead prosecutor for former special counsel Robert Mueller, said Wednesday on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" that President Donald Trump's pardons of Paul Manafort and Roger Stone mean they can be forced to testify against him. | Clips
Former Trump 2016 campaign adviser George Papadopoulos celebrated the pardon President Trump granted to him while noting that he may not be done with his accusers.
Former New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins was released from a Pensacola prison on Tuesday, the same day President Trump granted him and several other high-profile individuals pardons.