CREW statement on Trump pardons
Following President Trump’s pardons of Steve Bannon and Elliott Broidy, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Executive Director Noah Bookbinder, a former federal corruption prosecutor, released the following statement:
“Even Nixon didn’t pardon his cronies on the way out. Amazingly, in his final 24 hours in office, Donald Trump found one more way to fail to live up to the ethical standard of Richard Nixon.”