WASHINGTON — President Trump employed his power of clemency on Friday for the second time this week in connection with his nominating convention, issuing a full pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, a onetime drug convict, a day after she appeared in a campaign video praising his leadership. “You were out there, I saw you in the audience last night, and I asked the folks if you could bring Alice over,” the president told her during a hastily arranged event in the Oval Office. “We’re going to give a full pardon. We’re going to do it right now. That means you have been fully pardoned.

Source: New York Times August 28, 2020 19:52 UTC