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Donald Trump pardons former campaign aide George Papadopoulos, former congressmen and Blackwater contractors
President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to George Papadopoulos, a former campaign aide who pleaded guilty as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.
Key points:
- US President Donald Trump issued 15 pardons just days before Christmas
- The pardons included disgraced congressmen and four men convicted over a 2007 massacre of civilians in Iraq
- Top Democrats condemned the pardons, alleging Mr Trump was rewarding “his friends”
Mr Trump also pardoned Alex van der Zwaan, 36, the Dutch son-in-law of Russian billionaire German Khan. Van der Zwaan was sentenced to 30 days in prison and fined $20,000 for lying to US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators about contacts with an official in Mr…
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