{"id":80475,"date":"2018-07-10T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T15:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80475"},"modified":"2018-07-10T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:05:09","slug":"ranchers-dwight-and-steven-hammond-pardoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80475","title":{"rendered":"Ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond pardoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=80476\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80476\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dwight-Hammond-Jr.-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dwight-Hammond-Jr.-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dwight-Hammond-Jr.-426x333.jpg 426w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dwight-Hammond-Jr..jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-pardons-ranchers-case-inspired-2016-occupation-143454479--politics.html\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that the father-son team of ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond, whose imprisonment sparked the Malheur Valor Thief Convention in Oregon in 2016, were pardoned by President Trump. <\/p>\n<p>A sympathetic judge had sentenced the pair to reduced imprisonment terms, but prosecutors won an appeal that sentenced the ranchers to sentencing minimum of 5 years terms.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a statement Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called that decision to resentence the Hammonds &#8220;unjust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Hammonds are devoted family men, respected contributors to their local community, and have widespread support from their neighbors, local law enforcement, and farmers and ranchers across the West,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Justice is overdue for Dwight and Steven Hammond, both of whom are entirely deserving of these Grants of Executive Clemency.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Hammonds asked the valor thieves at Malheur to abandon their pointless occupation of the National Wildlife Refuge, but their pleas were largely ignored by the occupiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the father-son team of ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond, whose imprisonment &hellip; <a title=\"Ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond pardoned\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80475\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond pardoned<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}