U.S. President Donald Trump could issue a flurry of pardons during his final days in power.
Tag: presidential pardons
👓 Trump May Be Preparing Pardons for Servicemen Accused of War Crimes | New York Times
Military officials received expedited requests for paperwork needed to pardon several military members on or around Memorial Day.
🎧 The Daily: A New Path for Presidential Pardons | New York Times
Granting clemency was long a cumbersome bureaucratic process. That has changed under President Trump.
👓 Trump Allies Don’t See “Three-Dimensional Chess” In Dinesh D’Souza’s Pardon | BuzzFeed
President Donald Trump's announcement that he was pardoning far-right commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to campaign finance fraud, caught many in Trump world by surprise Thursday morning, but they insisted it was not indicative of possible pardons for Trump allies ensnared in the Russia probe.
The former official said he doesn’t think Trump is playing “the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he’s just eating the pieces.”
This certainly gets the prize for the quote of the year concerning Donald Trump.
👓 Trump poised to pardon Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff: Sources | ABC News
The president has already signed off on the pardon, sources told ABC News.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: The Prospect of Pardons | The New York Times
As the special counsel built his case against Michael T. Flynn and Paul Manafort, pressure was mounting for the men to to cooperate with the Russia inquiry.Then a lawyer for President Trump came to them with an idea: What if the president were to pardon his former advisers?
On today’s episode:
• Michael S. Schmidt, who has been covering the Russia investigation for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• The talks about possible pardons for two former Trump adviserssuggest that the White House was concerned about what Mr. Flynn and Mr. Manafort might reveal to the special counsel in the Russia investigation.
Presidents should not be able to grant or push potential pardons in actions in which they’re so closely involved.