Critics Take Hakeem Jeffries To Task For Praising Trump's Latest Pardon

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday praised President Donald Trump’s decision to preemptively pardon Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas), a conservative Democrat who was indicted on charges of bribery and acting as a foreign agent last year. “I don’t know why the president decided to do this. I think the outcome was exactly the right outcome,” Jeffries said in an appearance on CNN . Cuellar and his wife were indicted last May for allegedly taking $600,000 in exchange for

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