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15 pardons: Donald Trump (74) pronounced that number on Tuesday. Shortly before the end of his term, the president-elect of the United States pardoned his former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos (33). As a result of Robert Mueller’s (76) investigation into Russia, he was sentenced to two weeks in prison for false statements to the FBI of the Federal Police. “Today’s pardon corrects the injustice that Mueller’s team did to so many people,” the statement said Tuesday night (local time).
Another person who was convicted in connection with the Mueller investigation, Alex van der Zwaan (36), pardoned the incumbent president. At the end of November, Trump had already pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn (61).
Trump regularly lashed out at the Russia investigation as a “witch hunt.” Special investigator Mueller investigated whether there were agreements between the Trump camp and Russia in the 2016 election campaign.
Trump pardons Iraq veterans
Trump also pardoned two former Republican MPs, Chris Collins (70) and Duncan Hunter (44). Trump also pardoned four US military veterans who were held responsible for the deaths of several Iraqi civilians in 2007 due to a deployment to Baghdad for the then private security company Blackwater.
Blackwater employees opened machine gun fire from their armored vehicles in a busy Baghdad square in 2007. The defense argued at the time that the men acted in self-defense after the rebels fired on their convoy. The US government had hired Blackwater to handle personal protection in Iraq.
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, 74, and Barack Obama, 59, used the right to grant pardons until their last days in office. Even then, there were always controversial cases. (SDA)
