President Barack Obama granted 330 commutations, the White House announced Thursday, the most commutations given in a single day by a US president.
The announcement comes within 24 hours of the transfer of power from Obama to President-elect Donald Trump.
A White House official told CNN this is Obama’s final batch of clemency.
If these are Obama’s final acts of clemency that would apparently close the door on such an action for former American prisoner of war Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who has asked Obama for a pardon.
Bergdahl, who is from Hailey, Idaho, faces charges for leaving his post in Afghanistan in 2009. His court-martial is scheduled for February 6.
Trump has been a staunch critic of Bergdahl and the prisoner swap made under Obama. During the campaign, Trump frequently called Bergdahl a “traitor” and suggested that he should face harsher punishment.
