pardons

U.S. 01/19/22, 01:57

A Democrat who wants to be Louisiana's next U.S. senator posted images of himself smoking a mind-altering drug. Gary Chambers, Jr. raised eyebrows across social media after the progressive activist shared a video of himself smoking marijuana in New Orleans. The footage shows the senate candidate sitting in a field and complaining ...

U.S. 01/20/21, 06:15

President Trump has granted 73 pardons and 70 commutations as he enters his final full day in office, including his former top campaign aide and White House strategist Steve Bannon. Reuters cited a senior administration official saying that President Trump has also issued pardons to Elliott Broidy, who pleaded guilty last ...

Middle East 12/27/20, 19:06

A controversial Democrat, who openly holds extremist political views, described a presidential act of compassion as an international embarrassment. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) criticized President Donald Trump for pardoning security guards who allegedly opened fire after an Iraqi convoy ambushed them at Nisour Square in Baghdad. Omar criticized Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, ...

U.S. 11/26/20, 09:20

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and other Democrats yelled on Wednesday, Nov. 25, after President Donald Trump granted a pardon to the former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. In a statement issued after the pardon was announced on eve of Thanksgiving Day, Pelosi exaggerated ...

U.S. 03/05/20, 18:59

Celebrity reality star Kim Kardashian West wants her tens of millions of followers to know about the actions that President Trump had taken in giving pardons to three women in February, that she noticed was mostly absent in MSM. The president issued seven pardons and commuted the sentences of four others ...

Trending 01/03/20, 04:01

A domestic intelligence and security service will examine the clemencies by one of Kentucky’s most influential former state executives granted while in public office. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has asked the FBI to investigate the pardons by former Republican Gov. Matt Bevin allegedly approved before his term ended in late ...

Politics 11/16/19, 07:07

President Donald Trump on Saturday, Nov. 16, signed an Executive Grant of Clemency for a former U.S. Army commando set to stand trial next year and a former Army lieutenant convicted of murder. The commander in chief also ordered a promotion for a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a ...

Politics 05/19/19, 18:28

President Donald Trump might be preparing to pardon a handful of military members accused or convicted of war crimes, according to a Saturday report from The New York Times citing two unnamed officials. The paperwork required for such pardons was reportedly requested on an expedited timeline, meaning they could coincide with ...

Politics 05/06/19, 21:02

President Donald Trump has pardoned a former U.S. soldier convicted in 2009 of killing an Iraqi prisoner, the White House announced Monday. Trump signed an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon, for former Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, of Oklahoma, press secretary Sarah Sanders said. Behenna was convicted of unpremeditated murder ...

Politics 03/28/19, 03:51

The end of the special counsel's investigation sparked fresh speculation that President Donald Trump might pardon some of those charged in the probe. It's also spawned a don't-go-there chorus from some of Trump's closest advisers and GOP allies. They're warning that pardons could ignite a political firestorm that overshadows what Trump ...

U.S. 01/12/19, 09:58

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a Cabinet granted posthumous pardons Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, to Shepherd, Irvin, Charles Greenlee and Ernest Thomas, the four African-American men accused of raping a white woman in 1949 in a case now seen as a racial injustice.