Trump granted clemency to former White House aide Steve Bannon, a key adviser in Trump’s 2016 presidential run, and issued a wave of pardons and commutations in his final hours in office reut.rs/2KwyrQh 
White House officials told Trump that he should not pardon himself or his family because it might look like they were guilty of crimes, according to a source
Trump said he gave a full pardon to a former Google engineer sentenced for stealing a trade secret on self-driving cars months before the engineer briefly headed Uber’s rival unit reut.rs/35WAG6Y
Rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black were among the beneficiaries of Trump’s pardons, befitting a president who made his name in New York’s tabloids and on reality TV reut.rs/2XYcooM
As part of more than 140 pardons and commutations, Trump also pardoned Elliott Broidy, a former top fundraiser for Trump who pleaded guilty to violating foreign lobbying laws, and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was serving a 28-year prison term on corruption charges
A pardon is not reviewable by other branches of government and the president does not have to give a reason for issuing one. But the pardon power is not absolute; it applies only to federal crimes reut.rs/2KwyrQh
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