Trump Pardons Ex-Campaign Chief Manafort, Adviser Roger Stone
- President also pardons son-in-law Jared Kushner’s father
- GOP Senator Ben Sasse calls Stone, Manafort pardons ‘rotten’
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Donald Trump pardoned his 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort, using his executive power in the final weeks as president to free an ally who’d been convicted of financial crimes and illegal lobbying.
Trump also pardoned Roger Stone, a longtime political adviser whose sentence for a conviction of lying to Congress he had previously commuted; and Charles Kushner, the real estate developer and father of the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.