By Adam Shaw, Fox News
President Trump said Friday that he’s thinking about pardoning the late boxing legend and civil rights activist Muhammad Ali — although Ali’s attorney said that such a move is unnecessary.
Trump told reporters ahead of his departure to the G-7 summit in Canada that he was thinking “very seriously” about pardoning Ali.
“He wasn’t very popular then, he certainly is, his memory is very popular now,” he said. “I’m thinking about Muhammad Ali, I’m thinking about that very seriously.”
Ali was convicted in 1967 of draft evasion after he refused to serve in the Vietnam War, and stripped of his heavyweight crown. The Supreme Court, however, would overturn his conviction in 1971. He regained the boxing title in 1974. Ali died in 2016.
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