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Michael Behenna was convicted of unpremeditated murder in a combat zone.

President Donald Trump said that he was thinking about pardoning the boxing legend, but his conviction was already overturned.

A popular meme confused pardons with commutations and spread an erroneous rumor about the former president.

Neither the Constitution nor hundreds of years of Supreme Court rulings have directly answered the legality of this question.

Reports that President Trump "revoke[d] all sixteen Thanksgiving Day turkey pardons," ordering the birds executed by firing squad, were satirical.

Rumors that the Arizona senator admitted that he was a 'war criminal' and that was he pardoned by President Nixon for his crimes are not true.

A report that President Obama had promoted former Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl to staff sergeant was fake news.

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