Tim Walz offers strange defense for pardoning convicted child rapist Trump admin deported

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz publicly defended his vote to pardon a Laotian national who had been under a final removal order after losing legal status following a child-sex-crime conviction convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a 10-year-old girl after the Trump administration deported him to Laos last week. Tou Lue Vang, 42, received a pardon from Minnesota's Board of Pardons on June 10. Last Friday, the Trump administration announced that Vang's legal status had been revoked