sirbob
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Trump pardons ranchers in case that inspired 2016 occupation
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- President Donald Trump pardoned two ranchers whose case sparked an armed occupation of federal land
- Dwight and Steven Hammond were convicted on arson charges in 2012
- Ammon Bundy and dozens of others occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in protest
- Court dispute over five-year mandatory minimum sentences which were upheld
- White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said there was 'fire that leaked onto a small portion of neighboring public grazing land'
- Called the Hammonds 'devoted family men'
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