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Matthew Gertz

23 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read

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I've updated the @mmfa tracker for Trump's pardon pipeline -- at least 16 of his acts of clemency are linked to Fox: mediamatters.org/donald-trump/t…

Papadopoulos
Flynn
Stone
Blagojevich
Gallagher
Golsteyn
Lorance
Behenna
Saucier
D’Souza
Arpaio
Libby
Rubashkin
Milken
Kerik
Stanton

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@mmfa We're not there yet to add them but seems plausible that there's a Hegseth connection to the Blackwater pardons mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth/f…

https://twitter.com/swin24/status/1341549832159244288

Update: yup

https://twitter.com/swin24/status/1341549832159244288

Basically Pete Hegseth parlayed four years of being a Trump lickspittle into clemency for... eight war criminals.

"The pardon of these four [Blackwater mercenaries convicted for their roles in a massacre of Iraqi civilians, including children] is broadly supported by the public, including Pete Hegseth" whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…

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