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In his final days in the White House, Donald Trump seems determined to save his friends and family from criminal trouble and to reward his allies who lied to him with pardons. The second wave of pardons came on Thursday, the BBC writes, after a day ago the president of the United States decided to save several allies accused of corruption and perjury, but also some war criminals sentenced to long sentences for the massacre of civilians in Iraq.
Among the 26 people pardoned today are his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, his former adviser Roger Stone and his cousin, Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared, husband of Ivanka Trump.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager in 2016, was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison for financial fraud and for attempting to obstruct the investigation against him. He served part of his sentence in federal prison, but was allowed to continue serving his sentence at home in May this year due to the pandemic.
Manafort expressed his gratitude for his former boss in a Twitter post in which he “humbly” thanked Trump for rescuing him from prison.
Roger Stone, the second high-ranking criminal to be rescued by Trump, was convicted of lying to Congress about his attempts to contact wikileaks, the site that made public several emails from Trump’s rival in the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton. In addition, he was convicted of influencing witnesses and obstructing a formal procedure.
Stone has been described as Trump’s “attack dog”, promoting Trump with fake troll accounts on Facebook and other social media. During the trial he complained that he was the victim of a “Soviet-style show with politically motivated charges.”
Earlier, Trump had also commuted Stone’s sentence.
The third ringtone name for escaping from prison with Trump’s help is Charles Kushner, the acting president’s cousin. Jared Kushner’s father and Ivanka Trump’s father-in-law was sent to prison for tax evasion, campaign money fraud and witness influence.
During the trial, Kushner’s brother-in-law agreed to testify against him as a witness. Kushner was convicted of influencing witnesses after he hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, film his meetings with him, and then send them to his sister.
Publisher: Adrian Dumitru
