The current US President Donald Trump is exploring the possibility of pardoning his former adviser Stephen Bannon, writes Politico.
According to the newspaper, the outgoing head of state on January 20 intends to announce several pardons on the morning of January 15, and also on the morning of 20 in the morning before Joe Biden’s inauguration. Trump has already pardoned a number of his confidants who ended up in the dock: the ex-head of his campaign headquarters Paul Manafort, ex-presidential aide for national security Michael Flynn and former adviser Roger Stone.
Bannon was arrested in 2020 on suspicion of fraud. The former Trump adviser is suspected of deceiving people who donated funds to a campaign to build a wall on the country’s southern border. The We Are Building a Wall project raised over $ 25 million.
In 2016, Bannon held one of the main posts in the campaign headquarters of Donald Trump, and later he was appointed to the post of chief strategist of the administration in the White House, but in 2017 he resigned. After that, Bannon, according to the American media, became a consultant at Guo Media.