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Manafort had been sentenced to several years in prison for tax evasion and bank fraud. Trump had already issued a prison sentence in July for Stone, who was convicted of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Stone was sentenced to more than three years in prison in February for, among other things, false testimony and obstruction of justice.
Kushner, in turn, had ended up in prison for tax evasion, among other things. He has already served his sentence, but with the pardon his criminal record is subsequently erased. By the way, the prosecutor who once indicted Charles Kushner was Chris Christie, who later became governor of New Jersey. Christie, in turn, served Trump as an adviser.
As of Tuesday, Trump pardoned more than a dozen people, including former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and four US military veterans who were held responsible for the deaths of several Iraqi civilians in 2007 due to a deployment to Baghdad for the then company of Blackwater private security. In November, Trump had already pardoned his former security adviser Michael Flynn.
Republican Trump was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden in the November 3 election, but he will remain president with full powers until January 20. Former presidents like Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama also used the right to grant pardons until their last days in office. Also at that time there were always controversial cases; however, they were not persons who had been convicted of crimes directly related to the president or his electoral campaign.
