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On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump granted pardons to 15 people, including two people linked to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and people involved in the Iraq private security company Blackwater scandal.
These measures are expected to generate more controversy, at a time when the Republican president refuses to acknowledge his defeat in the November 3 election to Joe Biden, but will have to leave the White House on January 20.
And the White House announced Tuesday night that the outgoing president had granted a total pardon to about 15 people and partially or totally reduced the sentences handed down against another 5.
A full pardon was granted to George Papadopoulos, a former diplomatic adviser to Trump during his 2016 election campaign, who admitted that he had lied to the FBI about his contacts with an intermediary who had promised to contact Russian officials.
And he had cooperated with the investigators of the Special Prosecutor, Robert Mueller, who conducted investigations that lasted two years and related to the existence of a possible collusion between Russia and the Trump team, and the investigation failed to prove the existence of collusion between Moscow and the Republican billionaire.
Papadopoulos spent 12 days in prison and the White House said, “Today’s forgiveness corrects the damage Mueller has done to so many people.”
Trump also pardoned, on Tuesday, the Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zvan, accused in the framework of the Russian investigation.
And in late November, Trump pardoned Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, who was also involved in the same affair.
The pardons included 4 Blackwater security guards who had been convicted of killing Iraqis in 2007, including Nicholas Slatten, who was sentenced to life in prison.
They were convicted of opening fire in Baghdad’s busy Nisour Square on September 16, 2007, in an incident that sparked an international scandal and growing discontent with the US presence. The shooting killed at least 14 Iraqi civilians and injured 17 others.
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