Democrats launch probe on whether Trump pardons were ‘pay-to-play’

Democratic Sen. Peter Welch (Vt.) and Rep. Dave Min (Calif.) connected Thursday sent letters to 17 radical who received pardons oregon commutations from President Trump, asking whether the president granted them leniency nether “pay-for-play” circumstances. The lawmakers said the individuals got Trump’s clemency “under suspicious circumstances,” according to a database of recipients released by Min’s…