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In his convention speech, Republican Senator Rand Paul sharply criticized Joe Biden for voting for the Iraq war, while praising Trump for opposing the war.
But as a CNN reporter noted, Trump initially supported the war but later became one of its critics more than a year after it began. Biden has also since said his vote for the war was a mistake.
Rand Paul is correct Biden voted for the Iraq War, but Paul's contrast with Trump, man who declared the war an awful mistake, is misleading: Trump tentatively supported the war before it happened, becoming an explicit opponent more than a year into it. https://t.co/rJIrsFNcAt
Trump has opened tonight’s convention by issuing a pardon to Jon Ponder, who served a five-year sentence for robbing a bank before setting up an organization to help former inmates.
It may be the first time a pardon has been broadcast on TV during a convention, and many Trump critics have taken issue with it, seeing it as an abuse of presidential powers.
Trump is using a presidential pardon as a reelection ploy
is trump giving out a federal pardon like its a rose on an episode of the bachelor?
Trump is going to need a pardon for signing a pardon in the middle of a political convention.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say no president has ever used his pardon power during a partisan political convention. Until now.
New Ad: Miles Taylor reveals that Trump offered pardons to DHS staff in exchange for implementing his illegal immigration policies at the border.
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