Image: from Oath Keepers, Proud Boys leaders out of prison after Trump Jan. 6 pardons.
This page is part of a resource collection on Authoritarianism & Bigotry in the Second Trump Administration.
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February 11. Dan Greenberg: President Trump’s Pardons: An Embarrassment of Riches.
March 6. Kenneth P. Vogel: Pardon Industry Offers Rich Offenders a Path to Trump: One inmate paid lobbyists and lawyers with ties to the president’s team and walked free. Others are following his blueprint, but it is not always clear who can deliver.
March 6. Kenneth P. Vogel: How The Times Tracks Down the Connections Behind Trump’s Pardons: Reporters tapped sources, combed through public records and scrutinized social media to penetrate the web of influence and money underlying the president’s clemency grants.
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January 20. Martin Pengelly & Rachel Leingang: Trump issues 1,500 ‘unconditional’ pardons over January 6 Capitol attack.
June 17. House Committee on the Judiciary: New Judiciary Democrats Analysis Reveals Trump’s Corrupt Pardon Spree Cheated Crime Victims of $1.3 Billion.
January 21. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Why Autocrats Love Pardons.
May 27. Ben Shpigel: Trump Pardons Reality-Show Couple Convicted of $36 Million Fraud.
May 27. Kenneth P. Vogel: Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner.
June 11. Emily Davies and Perry Stein: What it takes to get a Trump pardon: Loyalty, connections or the pardon czar President Donald Trump’s revamped clemency process has often disregarded the Justice Department’s guidelines.
October 24. Bobby Allyn: Trump pardons jailed Binance founder who supported Trump family crypto business.
November 10. Richard Luscombe: Trump pardons Giuliani, Meadows and others over plot to steal 2020 election: Federal clemency towards president’s close allies largely symbolic as some still face legal exposure at state level.
November 10. Steve Inskeep: Trump issued pardons to allies linked to the 2020 election efforts. What that means.
November 11. Peter Stone: ‘A classic authoritarian tactic’: outrage over Trump’s pardons for friends and allies: Ex-prosecutors and legal scholars say US president ‘meting out pardons for blatantly corrupt and self-serving ends.’
November 23. Michael Kranish & Aaron Schaffer: The case of a felon who paid lobbyists nearly $1 million to seek a Trump pardon: Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz was sentenced in Aprilto three years for defrauding the government of $38 million. Seven months later, Trump pardoned him, but the White House denies a lobbying tie.
December 23. The Wall Street Journal: Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon: Lobbyists close to Trump say their going rate to advocate for a pardon is $1 million.