Trump offers Steve Bannon, ally in $1m fraud charges, last-minute pardon

  President Donald Trump has pardoned his former chief strategist Steve Bannon, who has been prosecuted for defrauding donor over $1 million, in a last-minute decision made only hours before he is scheduled to depart the White House for a final time. Trump, according to a report by CNN, told people that after much deliberation, he had decided to pardon Bannon as one of his final acts in office. “President Trump granted a full pardon to Stephen Bannon. Prosecutors pursued Mr. Bannon with charges related to fraud stemming from his involvement in a political…

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