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This Wednesday, US President Donald Trump pardoned Roger Stone and Paul Manafort; two of his main advisers during his 2016 presidential campaign, who were serving prison after not cooperating in the investigation of the Russian plot in the presidential elections.
To these, Charles Kushner, Ivanka Trump’s father-in-law, in addition to 23 other people.
This is the second major round of presidential pardons granted by Trump after his defeat in the recent elections and, like this Tuesday, it is littered with names related to him and the Republican Party.
According to a compilation by Harvard academic Jack Goldsmith, 60 of the last 65 pardons that Trump had issued were related to himself or were people who have supported his political goals.
Roger Stone, whose sentence had already been commuted by Trump this July, was sentenced to three years and four months in prison for lying to Congress, inciting perjury and obstructing the House of Representatives investigation into Russian interference in the US elections. 2016.
For his part, Paul Manafort was serving a sentence of seven and a half years for his role in a multi-million dollar financial fraud. He thanked the US president through his Twitter account, where he assured that “he truly made the United States great,” in reference to Trump’s campaign slogan.
Recently, the US president had also granted clemency to his former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, to his assistant George Papadopoulos and to lawyer Alex van der Zwaan, all involved in the Russian plot and charged by the team of the special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, in research carried out in 2017.
Another of those pardoned is Charles Kushner, who had been convicted of 16 crimes of tax evasion, misleading his brother-in-law and lying to the Federal Election Commission.
Margaret Hunter, on the other hand, was pardoned the day after her husband and former Republican director Duncan Hunter received the same treatment after being convicted of using campaign funds for personal expenses.
The other 20 pardons have been granted to those who had committed minor crimes, such as possession of weapons or cybercrimes, according to CNN.
