Pres. Donald Trump is expected to announce clemency on Monday or Tuesday to more than 100 people in his final hours in the White House.

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Trump To Pardon More Than 100 People

Pres. Donald Trump is now preparing to pardon or commute the sentences of more than 100 people before he leaves the White House. According to two persons familiar with the discussions, Pres. Trump is expected to announce the clemency on Monday or Tuesday.

According to The Washington Post, Trump met his son-in-law Jared Kushner, daughter Ivanka Trump, and other aides on Sunday. They spend the day reviewing a significant amount of a long list of pardon requests.

According to multiple people involved in the discussion, they also talked about the lingering questions of the appeals and said that Pres. Trump was personally engaged with the details of specific cases. Trump has told advisers for weeks that he wants to be liberal with pardons before leaving the White House.

Meanwhile, the White House Counsel's Office told some candidates for clemency that no pardons could be granted that were not finalized by Friday. After it, the president's last-minute weekend review and preliminary decisions to grant numerous pardons and commutations began to spread.

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Some Persons Who Received Clemency Under Trump Administration

Pres. Trump has granted clemency to 94 people including 49 that he issued a week before Christmas. It can be remembered that most of those who received clemency were either his friends or political allies.

Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and longtime confidant Roger Stone, who have been convicted in the special counsel investigation, were given clemency. Trump also pardoned Michael T. Flynn who had briefly served as Trump's first national security adviser.

It can be recounted that Flynn was later accused of lying to the FBI during its investigation of Russian interference in Trump's 2016 election win.

Other familiar persons who received pardon was Charles Kushner, father of his son-in-law, including three Republican former members of Congress, and four military contractors who are involved in the killing of unarmed civilians in Iraq.

Moreover, it was found out that there were around 14,000 people who filed petitions for pardon and commutations of sentences. Both Republicans and Democrats have been criticized by the criminal justice advocates for years for backlogs that left thousands of rehabilitated people seeking pardon and clemency.

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Who Will Receive Clemency Before Trump Leaves the White House?

White House spokesman Judd Deere declined to give any comments about Presidential clemency. He said that his office does not discuss pardons. On the other hand, people familiar with the discussion said that pardon and clemency will be uncontroversial.

It is also not clear if Trump will grant clemency to his former campaign adviser Stephen K. Bannon or his personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani. Bannon was charged last year with defrauding donors to a private fundraising effort for the construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.