One recipient of a pardon was a family member, Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The pardons to Manafort and Stone on the same day will be particularly stinging for former special counsel Robert Mueller and his team. The pardon of Kushner, the father-in-law of the president’s older daughter, Ivanka Trump, has been one of the most anticipated of the Trump presidency. But Barr supported the prosecution of Stone, whereas Trump commuted Stone’s sentence in July and pardoned Flynn last month. But a president’s pardon authority under the Constitution is expansive and not ordinarily subject to the approval of any other part of government.

Source: bd News24 December 24, 2020 07:41 UTC