President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced 26 new pardons, headlined by his good friend Roger Stone, his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Manafort and Stone were both indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller and convicted of several crimes related to the Russia investigation. Manafort served two years behind bars for bank and tax fraud, illegal foreign lobbying and witness tampering and Stone had his sentence commuted by Trump just before he was due to begin serving his time.
“Due to prosecutorial misconduct by Special Counsel Mueller’s team, Mr. Stone was treated very unfairly,” the White House said.