Trump Pardons 73 People, Including Steve Bannon, Lil Wayne, on Last Day

[thackney]

Trump Pardons 73 People, Including Steve Bannon, Lil Wayne, on Last Day
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-pardon-clemency-bannon/2021/01/20/id/1006358/
20 January 2021

President Donald Trump pardoned 73 people, including his former aide Steve Bannon and rapper Lil Wayne early Wednesday, just hours before he was due to leave office.

The list of those pardoned — as well as 70 others whose sentences were commuted — was released by the White House in a statement during the early hours.

Neither Trump nor his relatives were on the list.

Bannon had been charged with, and pleaded not guilty to, defrauding people over funds raised to build the Mexico border wall, a flagship Trump policy....

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Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/

[cato potatoe]

So he didn't pardon Assange or Snowden, but Death and Lil Wayne get a break.  One last disappointment on the way out.

[jmyrlefuller]

Thankfully Sheldon Silver was not one of them.