Trump pardons Democratic congressman in bribery case
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Washington, United States: US President Donald Trump has pardoned a Democratic member of Congress in a bribery case, saying the justice system had bee...
Washington, United States: US President Donald Trump has pardoned a Democratic member of Congress in a bribery case, saying the justice system had been "weaponized" by his predecessor Joe Biden.
"I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar ... I don't know you, but you can sleep well tonight -- Your nightmare is finally over!" Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday.
Cuellar and his wife had been facing several charges of conspiracy and bribery based on accusations from prosecutors that they had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of bribes from an oil and gas company partly owned by the government of Azerbaijan.
The couple have denied the charges for which they were facing trial in April.
"I want to thank President Trump for his tremendous leadership and for taking the time to look at the facts," Cuellar said in response to the pardon in a post on X on Wednesday.
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