PARDONS: “President Donald Trump on Friday granted a full pardon to Alice Marie Johnson, a criminal justice reform advocate whose life sentence he had previously commuted…
‘Just keep doing the great job you’re doing,’ the president said, noting her work advocating for the release of other prisoners locked up for nonviolent offenses…
Johnson, who was sitting at Trump’s side in the Oval Office, wiped her tears as he handed her the pen he’d used to sign the pardon. The action came less than 24 hours after Johnson told her story at the RNC — and thanked Trump for giving her a second chance…
Trump had stepped in on Johnson’s case after reality television star Kim Kardashian West personally lobbied him in an Oval Office meeting.”
-Dareh Gregorian, “Trump gives Alice Johnson a full pardon a day after her RNC speech,” nbcnews.com, Aug. 28, 2020