Philip Esformes, whose prison sentence Trump commuted, loses appeal
Donald Trump, while president, commuted the sentence of Florida nursing home operator Philip Esformes. The DOJ plans to retry him on deadlocked fraud counts.
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Kim Kardashian's social media post likely to improve Donald Trump's image
Kim Kardashian raised her voice against what she thinks the injustice being meted out to a man whose sentence was commuted by former president Donald Trump.Taking to Instagram on Sunday, the reality...
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Which 2024 GOP candidates would pardon Trump if they won the presidency? Here's what they're saying.
Former President Trump was arraigned on federal charges Tuesday, and some presidential candidates are weighing in on whether they'd pardon him, if they won the presidential election.
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Most Americans want to see Trump pardoned: poll
Donald Trump is the far-and-away 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner, according to a Harvard-Harris poll released Friday.
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Christie ‘can’t imagine’ pardon for Trump in documents case
GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie on Thursday said he “can’t imagine” a presidential pardon for former President Trump if the Republican frontrunner is found guilty in the classified documents case for which he is facing federal charges. “I can’t imagine a circumstance, as we see it right now, let’s say with the documents case, which…
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Man who had sentence commuted by Trump charged with fraud
A New Jersey man who had his sentence commuted by former President Trump was charged Wednesday in a “multi-million dollar Ponzi-like fraud scheme.” Eliyahu Weinstein, who was previously convicted of defrauding investors on two separate occasions resulting in combined losses of about $230 million, had his 24-year sentence commuted by Trump on the last day…
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Man who had sentence commuted by Trump charged in new alleged fraud scheme
Two years after Eliyahu Weinstein's release, prosecutors say he hasn't changed.
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Ex-NYPD Commissioner Pardoned by Trump Makes Deal With Jack Smith
Bernard Kerik received a presidential pardon for past convictions in 2020, and later helped Trump investigate false claims of election fraud.
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Trump-Pardoned War Criminal Clint Lorance Tries to Become Lawyer
Clint Lorance’s bid to become a lawyer is being opposed by his own troops, who saw him murder two innocent Afghan civilians.
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Young people allege abuse at center run by Arkansas man pardoned by Trump
Former residents of Lord’s Ranch, run by Ted Suhl, convicted of bribery in 2016, say abuse was ‘systematic and widespread’
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Ex-FBI official fears Trump will ignore vetting and start pardoning terrorists
Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi is seriously concerned about the recent reporting that Donald Trump's White House was not vetting some people they were pardoning or commuting sentences for in the administration's final months. A New York Times report by Michael Schmidt and others revealed that o...
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Ron DeSantis says he would pardon Trump in clearest comments yet
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that if elected president he would pardon former President Donald Trump if he were convicted on the multiple criminal charges he faces.
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Nikki Haley Says She Would Pardon Former President Donald Trump if Elected in 2024
"A leader needs to think about what's in the best interest of the country," stated Nikki Haley at a campaign event in New Hampshire.
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The Biden-Trump Foot-Shooting Contest
Unforced errors from an AWOL defense secretary to promises of Jan. 6 pardons.
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Trump likely won't have the power to pardon convicted Jan. 6 rioters: study
Donald Trump has made numerous statements suggesting that he plans to pardon his supporters who've been convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In one interview from 2022, he said he's considering "full pardons with an apology to many" if he's elected president. But a new report sugg...
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Paul Manafort backs away from supporting role with Republican National Convention following media scrutiny
Paul Manafort, former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman whom he later pardoned, is backing away from a role with the Republican National Convention following media scrutiny and questions over his involvement in the planning process, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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Romney says he would have pardoned Trump after indictments
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he would have pardoned former President Trump if he had been in President Biden’s position when federal indictments were brought against him. In an interview set to air in full Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” Romney said Biden would have looked like the “big guy” compared to…
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Romney knocks Biden for 'enormous error' in not pardoning Trump
Fierce Trump critic Sen. Mitt Romney revealed that he would've pardoned the 45th president as soon as the federal indictments came down and voiced bewilderment at why President Biden hasn't.
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Biden should have pardoned Trump on federal charges, Mitt Romney says
Republican senator tells MSNBC that ‘frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president’
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Trump to give 'serious consideration' to Assange pardon
US presidential nominee Donald Trump says he will seriously consider pardoning Julian Assange if he wins the November election.
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Trump Can 'Probably Take Money' for Pardons Per Supreme Court-Legal Analyst
Law professor Melissa Murray described on Sunday the power Trump has under the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling.
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Trump's Bold Moves: Pardons, Deportations, and Legal Battles
President-elect Donald Trump announces plans to pardon Jan. 6 defendants, supports the deportation of illegal immigrants, and upholds the nomination of Pete Hegseth despite allegations of misconduct. Concurrently, a large defamation verdict against Alex Jones stands, and the White House considers broader clemency after Hunter Biden's pardon.
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Trump vows to pardon January 6th Capitol rioters on day one of his second term
There could be `exceptions’ to a pardon if individuals had acted `radical’ or `crazy’ during the assault, says Trump
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Trump Pardoning January 6 Rioters Would Be Unpopular: Poll
More than 60 percent of Americans would disapprove of Trump pardoning those convicted in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a new poll found.
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'Appalling': Current and former prosecutors lament Trump's Jan. 6 pardons
On the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland tried to convey the enormous scope of the law enforcement effort to bring the rioters to justice, calling it “one of the largest, most complex and most resource-intensive investigations in our history.”
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Steve Bannon wins week-long delay of trial for 'We Build the Wall' crowdfunding scam
Steve Bannon convinced a Manhattan judge Wednesday to let a "more aggressive" attorney defend him against charges similar to those President Trump pardoned him for and won a week-long delay of his upcoming trial.
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Trump fully pardons Rod Blagojevich
"He was set up by a lot of bad people," the president said.
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Trump's pardons have shortchanged fraud victims of millions of dollars in restitution
The recent raft of pardons handed out by President Trump has shortchanged fraud victims of millions of dollars in restitution that's still owed to them, attorneys say.
ABC News by Lucien Bruggeman
Ghislaine Maxwell Hoping for Trump Pardon, but WH Says It'll Never Happen
Ghislaine Maxwell is hopeful President Trump will review her case and pardon her ... after his DOJ's controversial announcement about the Jeffrey Epstein files this week -- but sources close to the President say there isn't a snowball's chance in Hell that'll…
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Trump says will pardon former Honduras leader before presidential vote
Juan Orlando Hernandez, member of Trump-endorsed candidate Nasry Asfura's party, serving US drug trafficking sentence.
Al Jazeera English by Joseph Stepansky
Trump To Pardon Honduras Ex-Pres, A Convicted Drug Trafficker
Honduras Ex-President Juan Orlando Hernandez is not some fisherman suspected of hauling drugs in the Caribbean. If he were, he might have been killed by murderous Pete Hegseth already. No, Hernandez is a convicted cocaine trafficker. He was convicted in a Uni…
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Trump to pardon former Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez after plea deal
Vazquez accepted a plea deal in 2025 after she was accused of participating in a bribery scheme while in office.
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Welcome To Trump's Pardon Emporium's Two For One Special!
Anderson Cooper talked last night about the woman who got not one, but two pardons from Trumpy Bear. "Among them, someone who already got clemency in the president's first term back in 2019. Adriana Camberos was sentenced to 26 months in prison after being co…
Crooksandliars.com by Susie Madrak
A year later, some Jan. 6 rioters are emboldened by Trump's pardons
On the five-year anniversary of Jan. 6, some of the rioters pardoned by Trump on his first day back in office returned to the Capitol.
ABC News by Diana Paulsen, Jay O'Brien
Elizabeth Holmes Has Seen What Trump’s Done for Fraudsters and Wants That for Herself
The Theranos founder isn't scheduled to be released from prison until 2031.
Gizmodo.com by Matt Novak
Disgraced Crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Trump Pardon With Republican Pivot
SBF swears he was Republican-curious long before things went awry.
Gizmodo.com by Kyle Torpey
Anti-Abortion Extremists, Including Those Trump Pardoned, Are Remobilizing to Harass Clinics
MS Now reports that anti-abortion extremists have been emboldened by the DOJ’s decision to limit enforcement of a 1994 law meant to protect reproductive health clinics from violence.
Jezebel by Danielle Han
Trump calls Israel’s president ‘disgraceful’ for not pardoning Netanyahu
The US president tells reporters that Isaac Herzog should be 'ashamed' for not pardoning Netanyahu's bribery charges.
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Trump pardons 5 former NFL players ranging from perjury to drug trafficking
Ex-NFL players Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon are all granted clemency.
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A pardon for a price? How Donald Trump has reimagined presidential clemency
Critics have warned that the US president has taken an increasingly transactional approach to granting clemency.
Al Jazeera English by Adam Shanks
Notorious Drug Trafficker Got Five-Star Treatment After Trump Pardon
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was given special treatment and provided with a room in a luxury hotel after Donald Trump pardoned him in December, ProPublica reported Wednesday.Hernández, a member of Honduras’s right-wing National Party, was…
The New Republic by Finn Hartnett
A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse
Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse.
NPR by Tom Dreisbach
Andrew Paul Johnson, Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump, got life sentence for sexually abusing children
Andrew Paul Johnson, whom President Donald Trump pardoned for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing two children.
Snopes.com by Rae Deng
Honduran court drops case against ex-President Hernandez after Trump pardon
Juan Orlando Hernandez had been accused of money laundering and fraud as part of a government corruption scheme.
Al Jazeera English by Al Jazeera Staff
Jamie Raskin EXPOSES Trump's $1.7 Billion Pardon Racket
I sat down with Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, to talk about his life in Congress, his colleagues, and specifically about the committee’s new report on Trump’s pardons. Raskin’s committee found nearly $1.7 billion in fin…
Crooksandliars.com by Cliff Schecter
Other presidents have let white‑collar criminals dodge financial penalties – but not like Trump
Trump’s second-term clemency has saved convicted defendants nearly $1.7 billion in forgiven financial obligations
Salon by Caren Morrison
Trump says he would consider pardoning administration members
President Donald Trump told TIME magazine that he would consider pardoning members of his administration.
Abcnews.com by Katherine Faulders