Donald Trump actually said...

Last night at my direction, the United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed the number one terroris...

Why? Do you want to have a large detail of people guarding people for the rest of their lives? I mean, there's risks to everything.

These are the hostages, approximately 1,500 for a pardon. Full pardon.

Well we have to see, they've been given a pardon. I thought their sentences were ridiculous and excessive.