Pardons

A former aide for Giuliani alleges Trump's ex-lawyer said "that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split."

DeSantis initially condemned the events of January 6 before criticizing the media's coverage of it on its first anniversary.

Marijuana arrests account for over half of drug-related arrests in the U.S. and disproportionately affect Black Americans.

Republican Representative Nancy Mace praised the Biden administration for a "necessary big step forward in bringing justice to so many."

Marijuana legalization is supported across the political spectrum, but the president's announcement is unlikely to sway voters, according to one strategist.

President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that federal offenses of simple marijuana possessions would be pardoned.

A new report alleges that congressman asked the Trump administration for a pardon amid a DOJ probe into his alleged violation of sex trafficking laws.

The members of Congress have blasted the Jan. 6 Committee over the claims, but not all of them have denied asking for a presidential pardon after January 6.

GOP Representatives Matt Gaetz, Mo Brooks, Louie Gohmert, Andy Biggs, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Scott Perry all allegedly asked for pardons.

Trump said Friday that if he's reelected he'll be "looking at" January 6 defendants "very very seriously for pardons."

"Why would members do that if they felt that their involvement in this plot to overturn the election was somehow appropriate?" Schiff asked Sunday.

Liz Cheney said Rep. Scott Perry was among "multiple" Republican congressmen who sought a pardon in the wake of the January 6 attack.

Biden has granted the first three pardons of his term, and has also commuted the sentences of 75 other people with nonviolent, drug-related convictions.

New Hampshire's Governor Chris Sununu has "never been loyal" to Trump in the former president's view, his adviser Corey Lewandowski said.

"Biden should concede. I want his concession on my desk tomorrow morning. Don't make me come over there," Gosar's tweet said.

"I was too innocent and too GAY to deserve a pardon from Trump," the "Tiger King" star tweeted this week.

When looking at the raw numbers of pardons and commutations, the president is low on the list compared to his predecessors as he granted clemency to only about 1.7 percent of the people who petitioned him for it.

Trump granted clemency to dozens of people in the final hours of his presidency.

In August 2020, Bannon was indicted for fraud and money laundering connected to the We Build the Wall campaign, a $25 million GoFundMe crowdfunding purportedly helping Donald Trump to construct a border wall

In one of his final outgoing acts as president on Tuesday, Donald Trump granted clemency to 143 people including rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.

President Donald Trump has declined to grant a pardon to "Tiger King" star Joseph Maldonado-Passage, more commonly known as Joe Exotic.

On his last day in office, President Donald Trump pardoned 73 people and commuted the sentences of 70 others.

There is speculation about the president making final use of his clemency powers as his time in the White House draws to a close.

The "Trump told me to" defense provides "great evidence" for a Senate impeachment trial, joked one activist.

Biden can restore some respectability to the office by cleaning up the debris left by his predecessor's unorthodox clemency approach.

"I am doing this in large part as #Trump and family have tried, and thankfully failed, to destroy America's democracy," Michael Cohen tweeted on Friday.

"I think it's extraordinarily unlikely [Trump] resigns," President Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.

Pratt's comment referred to the December 23 pardons that Trump gave to fellow Republicans, security contractors convicted of killing a child in Iraq and the literal turkeys that Trump annually pardons for Thanksgiving.

Arizona Representative Paul Gosar said Rick Renzi was "convicted by corrupt DOJ prosecutors who fabricated evidence."

Paul Dickinson, who represented the family of nine-year-old Ali Kinani killed in the 2007 massacre, is outraged at the president's pardons of the veterans involved.