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Trump pardons 26, including Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Charles Kushner

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President Trump continued his pre-Christmas forgiveness blitz on 
Wednesday, pardoning his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, 
his longtime associate Roger Stone, and Charles Kushner, the 
father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Both Manafort, 71, and Stone, 68 — whose sentence Trump had 
already commuted in July — were convicted as a result of 
investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump has now pardoned four people convicted in special counsel 
Robert Mueller’s probe including former national security 
adviser Michael Flynn and 2016 campaign aide George 
Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

Manafort, a longtime Republican aide and lobbyist, had been 
sentenced to seven years in prison for tax fraud and other 
crimes relating to his work in Ukraine. The White House said 
that Manafort’s convictions were “premised on the Russian 
collusion hoax.”

He was released from prison in May because of coronavirus 
concerns and was under home confinement. He thanked the outgoing 
president in a tweet, writing that “words cannot fully convey 
how grateful we are” and praising his administration.

Stone was convicted in November 2019 of lying to lawmakers also 
investigating Russian election interference and was spared a 
three year and four month prison stint when Trump commuted his 
sentence a day before he was due to begin serving time.

“Due to prosecutorial misconduct by Special Counsel Mueller’s 
team, Mr. Stone was treated very unfairly,” the White House said 
in a statement.

Kushner, 60, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer who 
Trump knew from industry circles, was convicted in 2005 of 
illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness 
tampering as part of a salacious family scandal. His son Jared, 
a Trump adviser, married first daughter Ivanka Trump in 2009.

In a 2004 plea agreement, Kushner admitted to hiring a 
prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, filming the tryst and 
sending the tape to his sister. The case, which was prosecuted 
by then-US attorney Chris Christie, resulted in Kushner serving 
two years behind bars.

In all, Trump granted full pardons to 26 people on Wednesday 
night and commuted part or all of the sentences of three others, 
the White House said.

Also on the list was Margaret Hunter, the estranged wife of 
former US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), who was granted a 
pardon on Tuesday. Both had pleaded guilty to stealing campaign 
funds.

Several people convicted of non-violent drug crimes, including 
some who served several years in prison, also received pardons.

Among them was Topeka Sam, a New York prison reform advocate 
who, along with Kim Kardashian, had rallied for Trump to commute 
the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson. Johnson, who had been 
serving a 21-year sentence, was freed in 2018 and granted a full 
pardon by Trump in August.

Trump also pardoned Rebekah Charleston, a former sex trafficking 
victim from Texas who served 13 months in prison for tax evasion 
and whose bid for clemency was supported by the officer who 
arrested her.

His pardon spree began Tuesday night, when he granted clemency 
to 20 convicted felons, including three former GOP congressmen, 
four military contractors convicted in the massacre of 17 Iraqi 
civilians in 2007 and two former Border Patrol agents who 
covered up the shooting of an unarmed illegal immigrant.

Papadopoulos and Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan, who lied to 
investigators in the Mueller probe, were also granted clemency 
Tuesday.

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