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Donald Trump, the outgoing US president, issued a new wave of presidential pardons on Wednesday that includes two former men close to the politician and businessman convicted of their involvement in the Russian attempt to interfere in the US elections, Paul Manafort and Roger. Rock.
Manafort, a former president of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and Stone, an adviser to the still president, had been sentenced following Robert Mueller’s special investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections that established Trump as the 45th president of the United States United.
Charles Kushner, a well-known real estate entrepreneur and father of Trump’s son-in-law, also received a presidential pardon on this new vacancy. His son, Jared Kushner, was aboard Air Force One with the president when the president announced his clemency.
Trump thus continues to attack the results of the investigation into Russian interference, having already pardoned his former national defense adviser, Michael Flynn, and former adviser George Papadopoulos.
The New York State Attorney General has already made it known that he will continue with charges against Paul Manafort, who state prosecutors suspect is involved in mortgage fraud schemes. The Republican was serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence, while Roger Stone had already seen his sentence reduced after the president’s intervention, after he was originally sentenced to three years and four months in prison.
Until January 20, the day he resigns after a single term, Trump is expected to continue using the constitutional provision to pardon citizens convicted by the US courts. So far, the outgoing president has used this possibility in fewer numbers than most of his predecessors.
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