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Where Things Stand: Who Will Get Their Christmas Pardon?

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STERLING, VA - DECEMBER 13: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures towards supporters as he departs Trump National Golf Club on December 13, 2020 in Sterling, Virginia. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)
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December 18, 2020 12:49 p.m.

Word on the street (or, rather, Axios) is that President Trump is going to issue a wave of pardons today as a grand gesture of Christmas clemency to some of his closest friends and family.

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