What did Donald Trump claim about law on 19 Dec 2023?
Donald Trump, Former President of the United States and Republican presidential candidate ·
And I let Scooter Libby out. That's a friend of their family. They didn't do anything for him. I did. They didn't get him out, I got him out.
Trump didn't get Scooter Libby out. President George W. Bush commuted Libby's 30-month prison sentence on July 2, 2007, ending his imprisonment immediately.
President George W. Bush commuted Lewis Libby's 30-month prison sentence on July 2, 2007, ordering the 'sentence of imprisonment to expire immediately' (DOJ Office of the Pardon Attorney, commutations granted by President George W. Bush).
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- Campaign rally in Waterloo, Iowa.
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