A slew of pardons and sentence commutations by President Trump has journalists and media commentators scrambling to figure out their significance and explain what they might reveal about Trump’s mindset.
Trump on Wednesday commuted the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, who was convicted in the mid-1990s of several drug charges, a decision inspired by a visit to the White House from reality TV celebrity Kim Kardashian West. Last week, he fully pardoned controversial filmmaker and author Dinesh D’Souza who had pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws.
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