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☆ Promises Donald Trump has made so far in his campaign for a second term
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Piper Hudspethblackburn | Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Trump also said in that campaign video that he would cut funding for schools that teach critical race theory and gender ideology. Health careLast November, Trump promised to replace the Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare, in a series of posts on Truth Social. Trump also vowed in a June 2023 campaign video to reinstate his previous executive order so that the US government would pay the same price for pharmaceuticals as other developed countries. The former president added in a campaign video that he would stop lobbyists and government contractors from pushing senior military officials toward war. We will reverse almost all of them,” Trump said in a campaign video.

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☆ The son of Chiefs coach Andy Reid got his prison time reduced for a DWI crash that left a child with a brain injury
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Missouri's governor cut the remaining prison time for Britt Reid, son of the Kansas City Chiefs coach. Reid pleaded guilty to drunk driving in 2022 after he seriously injured a 5-year-old girl. Mike Parson on Friday shortened the prison sentence of former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid for a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a 5-year-old girl. Reid had been sentenced in November 2022 after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury. He is the son of Chiefs coach Andy Reid.

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☆ Trump pardoned a hodgepodge of controversial figures, from Joe Arpaio to Roger Stone. Now, dozens of them are contributing to his 2024 bid or have spread his false election claims.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Washington Post reviews detailed how a range of figures are boosting Trump's White House bid. Trump received a torrent of criticism while in office for his pardons of high-profile associates. Roughly 60% of Trump's clemency orders were pardons, according to Pew Research. Advertisement"The power to pardon is a beautiful thing," Trump said in 2018 while he still sat in the White House. Kerik, D'Souza, and Bannon all received presidential pardons, while Stone had his sentence commuted by Trump.

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☆ Jonathan Braun, the drug smuggler Trump pardoned, once flew to California to beat an associate with a belt, prosecutors alleged
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A drug smuggler pardoned by Trump was accused of "viciously" beating a younger employee with a belt. Braun's "brutal assault left the 'kid's' entire body 'black and blue,'" prosecutors alleged. Trump pardoned Jonathan Braun on his final day in office as part of a slew of last-minute pardons and commutations. But Braun found out the marijuana had been stolen and ordered the man to shell out $100,000 to pay him back, prosecutors alleged. When the man refused, Braun and another associate flew to California, broke into the man's house, and Braun started attacking him with his belt, prosecutors alleged in the court filings.

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Now governor, Parson also has become the face of mercy by pardoning more than 600 people in the past three years, more than any Missouri governor since the 1940s. In Missouri, clemency requests are first screened by the Board of Probation and Parole, which makes confidential recommendations to the governor. In Wisconsin, Evers has granted 1,111 pardons since taking office in 2019, surpassing the record of 943 set by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, had disbanded the pardons board and issued no pardons during his eight years in office. “For Governor Parson to look at me and to recognize that rehabilitation is real and not just stuff that somebody says, based your actions and not on your words, was huge," Galloway said.

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☆ Trump hung up on Kim Kardashian in 2021 because he thought she voted for Biden, book says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump hung up on Kim Kardashian after he assumed she had backed Biden, per a forthcoming book. In "Tired of Winning," Jonathan Karl writes that Trump rebuffed Kardashian after she asked for help with a clemency plea. Kardashian previously made high-profile visits to the White House to meet with Trump in 2018, 2019, and 2020. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn 2018, then-President Donald Trump welcomed Kim Kardashian to the White House as the reality star advocated for sentencing reform for nonviolent offenders. AdvertisementAdvertisementMonths after Trump left the White House, Kardashian reportedly called Trump to get his endorsement for a clemency plea.

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☆ Convicted Ponzi schemer granted clemency by Trump charged with new Ponzi scheme
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Christina Wilkie | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — A New Jersey man who had his prison sentence for running a massive Ponzi scheme commuted by Donald Trump on the final day of his presidency was charged Wednesday with orchestrating a similar scheme. Eli Weinstein and four accomplices are accused of overseeing a new Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say has defrauded 150 victims out of more than $35 million. The first came in 2013, when he pleaded guilty to 45 counts of fraud and conspiracy for stealing over $200 million from investors. In 2015, he pleaded guilty in a second case, this time to committing wire fraud while he was on trial for the Ponzi scheme. Weinstein had served eight years of his 24-year prison sentence when Trump granted him clemency in 2021, as one of 143 people who received either pardons or commutations during Trump's final hours in office.

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☆ A convicted Ponzi schemer whose sentence Trump commuted after an intense lobbying push is now being charged with defrauding investors, again
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Prosecutors say that a convicted Ponzi schemer that Trump got out of prison defrauded people again. Trump's commutation of Weinstein's sentence was one of his final acts as president. Federal prosecutors said on Wednesday that shortly after Trump helped him get released, Weinstein concocted another scheme. Trump's commutation of Weinstein's sentence led to his release after serving less than eight years of a 24-year sentence. Prosecutors allege it did not take Weinstein very long to get back to defrauding investors.

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☆ Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani plotted to sell presidential pardons for $2 million a piece, former staffer says in lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

On Monday, Rudy Giuliani was hit with a bombshell rape civil lawsuit filed by a former staffer. The staffer alleged in the suit that Giuliani asked if she knew anyone who wanted to buy a presidential pardon. The suit says Giuliani said he was selling them for $2 million, splitting the profit with Trump. As of 2022, the office has a backlog of more than 17,000 pending applications for pardons, Bloomberg reported. Compared to former President Barack Obama's more than 1,300 clemency grants, Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of 240 people while in office.

☆ The President's power to pardon is broad, unchallengeable, and almost unlimited. Here are 25 of the most controversial pardons and commutations in history.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( James Pasley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

US presidents have the power to pardon anyone in the country who has been convicted of a federal crime. Presidents can also pardon other presidents, like when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal. Loading Something is loading. While the crimes varied, they shared the commonality of their pardons being marred with controversy. From clemency for former confederates to Vietnam draft dodgers to pardoning the billionaire fugitive Marc Rich, here are some of the most notable presidential pardons in history.

☆ Kim Kardashian reveals the ‘magic’ of her success to CNN’s Poppy Harlow
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Just a few years ago, Kim Kardashian was dyeing her own shapewear in a sink with teabags. Skims is valued at a reported $3.2 billion and was named one of Time’s most influential companies for 2023. Kim Kardashian and Poppy Harlow speak onstage at the 2023 Time 100 Summit. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIMEKardashian told Harlow that she “absolutely” trusts her gut over data when it comes to finding companies for SKYY to invest in. As she gets older, the 42-year-old Kardashian realizes she now has the luxury of choosing people she wants to surround herself with.

☆ Oregon Gov. Kate Brown commutes sentences of 17 people on death row
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Zoë Richards | Zoë Richards Is The Evening Politics Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Kate Brown announced plans Tuesday to commute the sentences of the 17 people on death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole, most likely using her executive clemency powers for the last time as governor. “Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row. Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral." Brown said the commutations were consistent with a moratorium on the death penalty Gov. The death penalty was first legalized in Oregon in the 19th century, but it has been abolished and reinstated three times since then.

State law was later changed to require unanimous Board of Pardons approval to recommend commutations for those serving life sentences. In his second term, Wolf has already commuted 47 life sentences, at the urging of the pardons board. “In making clemency decisions, John scrupulously reviewed clemency applications and consulted with corrections officials, prison wardens, judges and DAs. Fetterman has not, as one Oz ad implies, called for eliminating all life sentences for murderers. All but one of the men featured had been serving life sentences on second-degree murder convictions, with a variety of mitigating circumstances in their favor.

☆ Steve Bannon surrenders in Manhattan 'We Build the Wall' donor-scam case
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Last time Bannon was busted in the "We Build the Wall" donor-scam case, it was aboard a $28 million yacht. And unlike after his 2020 arrest, Trump can't throw Bannon a life preserver in the form of a federal pardon. After he's booked, "they'll probably keep him in the DA-squad office, where they fingerprinted him, or the DA-Investigators' office," Saland said. There, he'll wait for his afternoon court appearance — quite possibly in a "1970s-era chair," Saland said. But it's certainly not going to be anything like a $28 million yacht."

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