Presidential pardon

"Where are you on the idea of presidents pardoning Trump?" Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Biden, who appeared to chuckle in response.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that he would use the "pardon power" in cases where the federal government had been "weaponized against disfavored groups."

On Thursday, a grand jury in Manhattan voted to indict former President Donald Trump. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday afternoon.

The Florida congressman is reported to have sought clemency from the former president as far back as December 2020, according to White House officials.

Sam Nunberg, a former aide to ex-President Donald Trump, said the conservative podcaster doesn't actually believe the presidential election was stolen.

"Tiger King" star Joe Exotic, who was found guilty of paying a hitman to kill Carole Baskin, says a confession in "Tiger King 2" proves his innocence.

The "Feelin Peachy" rapper was released from prison in January following Donald Trump's decision to grant him a presidential pardon.

Joe Exotic says he needs President Joe Biden to "sign that pardon that Trump left behind so I can go home and get proper medical care and proper food."

What is needed is a strong, clear message that the pardon power does not enable a president to pardon whomever he pleases for whatever purpose he chooses.

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

President Donald Trump issued dozens of pardons and commutations on his last full day in office.

The rapper is serving a four-year sentence in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of multiple illegal firearms in November 2019.

Notable people pardoned by Trump today include former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and rapper Lil Wayne.

The rapper was expected to face a prison sentence of up to 10 years after pleading guilty to a weapon possession charge.

Trump chose not to issue pardons for himself of his personal attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will be freed after serving just seven years of a 28-year prison sentence for bribery and racketeering charges while holding public office.

The president did not issue pardons for himself, his children or for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Trump released a list of pardons on Tuesday, as last-minute presidential pardons have been a long-standing custom for outgoing presidents.

In the final hours of his presidency, Donald Trump is expected to grant close to 100 pardons. Some fear he can issue secret pardons to his family and friends.

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

The Tiger King star is currently serving a 22-year sentence for plotting to kill his rival Carole Baskin and for animal cruelty.

"There's reportedly a lucrative market for pardons," Colbert joked during his Monday night monologue, with the president reportedly due to pardon more than 100 people.

When it comes to Donald Trump, the incoming president has a critical decision to make about the best way to move the country forward—and neither Democrats nor Republicans are likely to be happy about his choice.

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

Legal scholars are divided on whether it would be possible for the president to pardon himself, and the case becomes even weaker after impeachment.

On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump issued 15 pardons and commuted the sentences of 5 other people.

"I've been asked—on a scale of one to ten, who will be the next president of the United States, and I say Donald Trump. Ten," Flynn told the crowd at a "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington D.C.

Before leaving office on January 20, President Donald Trump "will step down and allow the vice president to pardon him," New York Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday.

The president has previously asserted that he has the power to self-pardon but would have no need to do so.

The problem with Col. Franklin's plight isn't simply that he is a long-suffering innocent patriot. It's that Col. Franklin was targeted and prosecuted, and his life was destroyed, to advance an anti-Semitic political agenda.