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US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump granted pardons and sentence commutations for 29 people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law.
The actions mean that Trump has granted clemency to nearly 50 people in the past two days by pardoning them or commuting their sentences.
The pardons for Manafort and Roger Stone, whose sentence was commuted months earlier by Trump, underscore the president’s determination to use the power of his office in recent weeks to unravel the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and come to the aid of the associates. he feels they were wrongly persecuted.
Trump has now pardoned four people convicted in that investigation, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn and campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, who both pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Manafort had been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for financial crimes related to his work in Ukraine and was one of the first people charged as part of Mueller’s investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
He was released last May due to coronavirus concerns in the federal prison system.
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Manafort, in a tweet, thanked Trump and praised the outgoing president, stating that history would show that he had accomplished more than any of his predecessors.
Kushner is the father of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and a wealthy real estate executive who pleaded guilty years ago to tax evasion and illegal campaign donations.
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