Sunday, December 27, 2020
Trump wields pardon power as political weapon, rewarding loyalists and undermining prosecutors - The Washington Post
...Trump has told allies he wants to erode the Mueller probe through the presidential power to pardon. His pardons Wednesday of former campaign manager Paul Manafort and political confidant Roger Stone — both convicted of trying to impede investigations into Russia's interference into the 2016 presidential race — were part of the effort to discredit Mueller and reward those who stood by him even as they faced prosecutorial pressure, aides said...
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