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Trump to pardon Dinesh D'Souza
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390029-trump-to-pardon-dinesh-dsouzaTrump to pardon Dinesh D'Souza
TheHill.com
President Trump announced early Thursday that he would be pardoning conservative author Dinesh D’Souza later in the afternoon.
"Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D’Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government!" Trump wrote on Twitter
D'Souza pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign laws in 2014 and was convicted of a felony.
He had been charged with illegally organizing $10,000 campaign donations from two people for Wendy Long's 2012 Senate bid against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). D'Souza and Long were friends at Dartmouth College, and he remained a supporter of Long when she ran as a Republican against Gillibrand.
Trump's decision to pardon D'Souza comes one day after he met with reality TV star Kim Kardashian about prison reform.
Kardashian has been advocating for a pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, a 65-year-old woman who is serving a life sentence in prison for a nonviolent drug offense. So far, Johnson has spent more than 20 years in federal prison.
Trump has made several pardons since taking office, most of them to well-known people. He most recently pardoned the boxer Jack Johnson posthumously last week. He has also given pardons to Scooter Libby, the former aide to former Vice President Dick Cheney, and to Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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