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This combination made from file photo shows Blackwater guards, from left, Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough. On Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, President Donald Trump pardoned 15 people, including Heard, Liberty, Slatten and Slough, the four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone
Trump pardons 4 Blackwater contractors convicted of 2007 Iraq massacre
President issues a total of 15 pardons, including Republicans who were strong and early supporters and a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe
Dec. 23, WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone.
Supporters of the former contractors at Blackwater Worldwide had lobbied for the pardons, arguing that the men had been excessively punished in an investigation and prosecution they said was tainted by problems. All four were serving lengthy prison sentences. continue to read
Trump pardons 4 Blackwater contractors convicted of 2007 Iraq massacre
President issues a total of 15 pardons, including Republicans who were strong and early supporters and a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe
Dec. 23, WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone.
Supporters of the former contractors at Blackwater Worldwide had lobbied for the pardons, arguing that the men had been excessively punished in an investigation and prosecution they said was tainted by problems. All four were serving lengthy prison sentences. continue to read
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Vice President Pence at Turning Point USA Student Action Summit
Vice President Mike Pence delivered remarks at Turning Point USA in West Palm Beach, Florida. The vice president encouraged the audience to continue their support for President Trump and help elect Republicans in the Georgia Senate race. He also spoke about the president’s accomplishments and warned against the Democrats' policy agenda.
Vice President Pence at Turning Point USA Student Action Summit
Vice President Mike Pence delivered remarks at Turning Point USA in West Palm Beach, Florida. The vice president encouraged the audience to continue their support for President Trump and help elect Republicans in the Georgia Senate race. He also spoke about the president’s accomplishments and warned against the Democrats' policy agenda.
US Vice President Mike Pence speaks at Turning Point USA conferen
'Ultimate betrayal': US President Donald Trump fumes over VP Mike Pence's role in dying days of administration
Dec. 23 - US President Donald Trump is reportedly fuming in private over the role his Vice President, Mike Pence, will play in finalising his defeat to Joe Biden two weeks from now.
The election result has been beyond doubt for some time. The President's legal challenges have gone nowhere and the electoral college officially cast its votes for Biden a week ago. Trump's refusal to concede will not prevent the transfer of power.
However, there are still a couple of steps left in the process. First, on January 6, Congress will hold a joint session to count the electoral votes. Then, on January 20, Biden will be sworn in at his inauguration. continue to read
'Ultimate betrayal': US President Donald Trump fumes over VP Mike Pence's role in dying days of administration
Dec. 23 - US President Donald Trump is reportedly fuming in private over the role his Vice President, Mike Pence, will play in finalising his defeat to Joe Biden two weeks from now.
The election result has been beyond doubt for some time. The President's legal challenges have gone nowhere and the electoral college officially cast its votes for Biden a week ago. Trump's refusal to concede will not prevent the transfer of power.
However, there are still a couple of steps left in the process. First, on January 6, Congress will hold a joint session to count the electoral votes. Then, on January 20, Biden will be sworn in at his inauguration. continue to read
'Ultimate betrayal': US President Donald Trump fumes over VP Mike Pence's role in dying days of administration
Dec. 23 - One of the familiar genres of White House reporting during the Trump era has been the theme that President Trump is degenerating into madness, or at least some deeper state of madness. I have treated these reports with persistent skepticism. By all outward signs, Trump’s grip on reality has waxed and waned in regular intervals, and the man who publicly insisted in 2011 that Barack Obama had faked his birth certificate did not seem substantially more hinged than the one who claimed Joe Biden had fired a Ukrainian prosecutor to protect his son’s business. The people around Trump who believed he was growing more deranged were perhaps mistaking their own diminishing ability to cope with his delirium with a change in the patient’s underlying condition.
And yet here, in the true final stages of the Trump presidency, we at last have evidence of genuine change. Trump’s mental decline may not be actually accelerating, but he is turning against his supporters in a sharp and distinctive fashion. continue to read
Dec. 23 - One of the familiar genres of White House reporting during the Trump era has been the theme that President Trump is degenerating into madness, or at least some deeper state of madness. I have treated these reports with persistent skepticism. By all outward signs, Trump’s grip on reality has waxed and waned in regular intervals, and the man who publicly insisted in 2011 that Barack Obama had faked his birth certificate did not seem substantially more hinged than the one who claimed Joe Biden had fired a Ukrainian prosecutor to protect his son’s business. The people around Trump who believed he was growing more deranged were perhaps mistaking their own diminishing ability to cope with his delirium with a change in the patient’s underlying condition.
And yet here, in the true final stages of the Trump presidency, we at last have evidence of genuine change. Trump’s mental decline may not be actually accelerating, but he is turning against his supporters in a sharp and distinctive fashion. continue to read
