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"Lil Wayne"
Donald Trump expected to pardon Lil Wayne but Julian Assange, Steve Bannon may miss out
nzherald.co.nz 18 Jan, 2021 04:01 PM
Rapper Lil Wayne is expected to be one of up to 100 people to receive last-minute commutations or pardons before US President Donald Trump leaves office this week, but WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is likely to miss out.
Multiple US media outlets have reported that Trump is preparing an expansive list to be released on Tuesday or possibly even Wednesday (US time) – the morning of Joe Biden's inauguration – but that the President has opted not to take the extraordinary step of issuing a pardon for himself or any members of his family.
Fox News reports a White House meeting was held on Sunday afternoon to finalise the growing list, with rapper Lil Wayne (real name Dwayne Carter) making the cut but former Trump adviser Steve Bannon being described as "TBD" (to be decided).
Lil Wayne, who supported Trump for re-election, pleaded guilty last year to illegally possessing a gold-plated handgun while travelling to Florida in a private jet in 2019, which was not allowed due to a prior felony conviction. His bag also contained cocaine, ecstasy and oxycodone.
Bannon, who was booted from the White House in 2017, was charged last year with defrauding donors to a crowd-funding campaign to build a wall between the US and Mexico. The wire fraud and money laundering charges each carry a maximum of 20 years in prison.
He pleaded not guilty was released on a $US5 million ($7m) bond ahead of a May 2021 trial date. Trump has repeatedly distanced himself from the project, tweeting last year that it was "not my wall", but adding: "Totally unrelated, but I think Steve will be just fine."
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertai...nnon-may-miss-out/OTNKD4WKWEV4TKGPBZOOGS3YQQ/
Pardons for international war criminals but not for Assange - another example of American Exceptionalism!
Reuters: Trump pardon of Blackwater Iraq contractors violates international law - UN
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s pardon of four American men convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 violated U.S. obligations under international law, U.N. human rights experts said on Wednesday.
Nicholas Slatten was convicted of first-degree murder, while Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were convicted of voluntary and attempted manslaughter, over the incident in which U.S. contractors opened fire in busy traffic in a Baghdad square and killed 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians.
The four contractors, who worked for the private security firm Blackwater owned by the brother of Trump’s education secretary, were included in a wave of pre-Christmas pardons announced by the White House.
“Pardoning the Blackwater contractors is an affront to justice and to the victims of the Nisour Square massacre and their families,” said Jelena Aparac, chair of the U.N. working group on the use of mercenaries, said in a statement... MORE https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-violates-international-law-un-idUSKBN294108
In the end, The Donald was just another Con Man. And so many here fell for it. Shame.
But he was also "A GREAT AND VERY BRAVE SOLDIER" for having avoided sexually transmitted diseases in the '80s!
General Bone Spurs also made draft dodging acceptable, so there's that
And what happened to the "Ron Paul REVOLution" ??
Did it DIE on a Golf Course while Rand was playing kiss-up to the Buffoon? Does anyone care?
Washington, District of Criminals
