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Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:32 PM

Aug 2020

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-pardons-hope-prisoners-founder-scheduled-speak-rnc-day-2-1527616

On Tuesday, Republican President Donald Trump pardoned Jon Ponder, a former three-time convicted felon and founder of the post-prison re-entry organization Hope for Prisoners. The pardon came before Ponder's expected remarks at the 2020 Republican National Convention.

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You get a pardon! And you get a pardon ! And.... C_U_L8R Aug 2020 #7

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