Trump retweets message saying Obama pardoned 'a traitor'
Source: The Hill
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 08/28/17 09:39 AM EDT
President Trump on Monday retweeted a message incorrectly attacking President Obama of pardoning Chelsea Manning in defense of last week’s pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Trump retweeted Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich’s response to Obama adviser Ben Rhodes, who said that “Obama used his pardon and commutation power to give a second chance to people who deserved empathy, not racists who showed none.”
“Your boss pardoned a traitor who gave U.S. enemies state secrets, he also pardoned a terrorist who killed Americans. Spare us the lecture,” Pavlich said in a Sunday tweet that was retweeted Monday morning by Trump.
Link to tweet
Pavlich, a columnist for The Hill, was referencing Obama’s commutations of the sentences of Chelsea Manning and Oscar Lopez Rivera’s sentences. Manning leaked classified information to WikiLeaks, and Rivera was a member of the Puerto Rican nationalist group Armed Forces of National Liberation that was responsible for many bombing deaths in the U.S. Obama did not pardon either one, but rather commuted their sentences. Manning served seven years and Rivera served 35 before being released.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348240-trump-retweets-message-saying-obama-pardoned-a-traitor
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