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Marcuse

(7,488 posts)
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 08:25 PM Dec 2020

Trump pardons former Rep. Chris Collins [View all]

Source: Buffalo News

"Today, President Trump granted a full pardon to Chris Collins, at the request of many Members of Congress," the White House said in a statement that did not offer any further explanation of Trump's action.

The Collins pardon was one of several the president issued. Two other congressmen-turned-felons, Duncan Hunter of California and Steve Stockman of Texas, were also pardoned. Hunter and Stockman, like Collins, are Republicans.

Read more: https://buffalonews.com/news/trump-pardons-former-rep-chris-collins/article_fef6b3cc-44b2-11eb-9842-f7428af473ae.html?utm_source=TownNews%20Now&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Breaking%20News



The timeframe on the footage matches up with the time outlined in the federal indictment against Collins, when he is alleged to have called his son to warn him to sell off stock from the Australian biotech company Innate Immunotherapeutics.

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