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Thursday, December 24, 2020
Manafort and Kushner’s father
Trump pardons fellow criminals
The president of the United States, Trump, is doing the same thing as his predecessors and is granting pardons until the end of his term. Yet in Trump’s case, it is always close confidants who benefit from his power. Besides Manafort, now also someone with family ties.
Shortly before the end of his term, the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, pardoned other loyal colleagues. Trump pardoned the former president of his election campaign team, Paul Manafort, and his confidant Roger Stone on Wednesday night (local time). He also pardoned real estate businessman Charles Kushner, father of his adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Trump had only announced a series of controversial pardons on Tuesday. For example, he gave George Papadopoulos, his 2016 campaign advisor, full remission. Papadopoulus pleaded guilty to lying to FBI officials about his contacts with top Russian officials.
Manafort, now pardoned, 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.
Kushner’s criminal record expunged
Stone was sentenced to more than three years in prison in February for, among other things, false testimony and obstruction of justice. Charles Kushner, on the other hand, 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.
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. At that time, too, there were always controversial cases; however, they were not persons who had been convicted of crimes that were directly related to the president or his electoral campaign.
