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- A drug smuggler pardoned by Trump was accused of "viciously" beating a younger employee with a belt.
- Braun's "brutal assault left the 'kid's' entire body 'black and blue,'" prosecutors alleged.
- Trump commuted Jonathan Braun's sentence on his last day in office as part of a slew of last-minute pardons.
A drug smuggler who was pardoned by then-President Donald Trump once beat an associate so badly with a belt that it left the man's body covered in bruises, prosecutors alleged at the time of his court case.
Trump pardoned Jonathan Braun on his final day in office as part of a slew of last-minute pardons and commutations.