President Donald Trump announced that he would formally pardon Susan B. Anthony, the women’s suffragist who was arrested after voting illegally in 1872.
announced in a speech at the White House on Tuesday that he would formally pardon Susan B. Anthony, the women’s suffragist who was arrested after voting illegally in 1872.
Actually, to be precise, Trump’s pardoning announcement began with a mysterious rollout on Monday: In his inimitable, reality-TV-inflected style, Trump promised that he would pardon someone ““[Anthony] was never pardoned. Did you know that? She was never pardoned,” Trump said. “What took so long?” One answer, perhaps, is Anthony’s own lack of desire to be pardoned.
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