Trump Pardons Former Campaign Aide, Two Former GOP Lawmakers
- President pardons Blackwater guards convicted in Iraq massacre
- Border Patrol officers, nursing home fraudster also pardoned
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President Donald Trump issued a slew of pardons on Tuesday, including for two people convicted as part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe and for two former Republican congressmen convicted of a range of financial crimes.
From the Mueller investigation, Trump pardoned former campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who was convicted of lying to the FBI, and Alex van der Zwaan, a lawyer who was also convicted of making false statements during the Russia probe. He also pardoned four men who worked as security guards for Blackwater and had been convicted in relation to the 2007 killing of Iraqi civilians.