Donald Trump has commuted the sentence for Alice Marie Johnson. Kim Kardashian visited the White House last week to ask Trump to pardon her. The 63-year-old grandmother is serving a life sentence for drug-related crimes.
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ā Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) June 6, 2018
Trump reportedly didnāt issue a full pardon, but did grant her clemency which will mean she gets out of jail after serving 21 years.
Meanwhile, this means Donald Trump has issued six pardons or commutations so far, but that number could reportedly rise drastically soon.Ā CNN is reporting:
āThe White House has assembled the paperwork to pardon dozens of people, two sources with knowledge of the developments tell CNN, signaling that President Donald Trump is poised to exert his constitutional power and intervene, in some instances, where he believes the Justice Department has overstepped.
The administration has prepared the pardoning paperwork for at least 30 people..ā
āTrump is exploring more opportunities to use that power.
āA White House official this week said Trump is āobsessedā with pardons,ā our report indicates, ādescribing them as the presidentās new āfavorite thingā to talk about. He may sign a dozen or more in the next two months, this person added.ā HeĀ hasĀ grantedĀ five so far, with a possible sixth looming.ā
No word ifĀ Martha Stewart and former Illinois Governor RodĀ Blagojevich are on the list, but Trump certainly hinted at it after he pardonedĀ Dinesh DāSouza last week.
The wife of campaign aide George Papadopoulos is hoping her husband makes the cut. She is publicly asking that Trump pardons him before he does any jail time.Ā Papadopoulos pleaded guilty last year for lying to the FBI about his connectionsĀ to Russia. He is expected to be sentenced soon.
George Papadopoulos' wife Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos: "I trust and hope and ask to President Trump to pardon him." pic.twitter.com/ASYP0RE7Vj
ā Fox News (@FoxNews) June 5, 2018
Pardons typically come late is a Presidentās term and normally follow a specific process through the judicial process. A process Trump hasnāt followed.