As U.S. President Donald Trump issued a series of dazzling tariff declarations that have brought Ivy League schools to their policies and tried to stop the moratorium on deals amid global conflict, his administration regularly released pardons and commuters, attracting less media attention.
These recent decisions – including Tuesday’s pardon, were a reality show couple who charged more than $30 million in banks and did not draw widespread condemnation, namely, on January 6, 2021, Capitol Riot. Based on the evidence so far, many of the subsequent pardons seem to be less legally nuanced than affiliation and party.
Trump said Monday that he would pardon Scott Jenkins and alleged on social media that Virginia Sheriff was a victim of the “over-crazy” Justice Department of Joe Biden's presidency and a judge appointed by Biden.
In fact, in his 2024 trial, Calpepper County Sheriff was seen accepting cash in the video, part of what the prosecutor said was a model of borrowing money in exchange for auxiliary sheriff badges and personal gain. Jenkins, both a Republican and an independent, said last month that he hopes to beg the Trump administration for leniency.
Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who ran for governor in Virginia, pardoned pardons in social media posts, noting that American citizens rather than politicized individuals or bodies voted against Jenkins on 12 separate charges.
Spanberger said the pardon was an “offensive” by many officials, including “law enforcement officers who investigate the case and maintain the highest ethical standards every day.”
William Kristol, a former Ronald Reagan administration official and long-time conservative commentator, laughed at Jenkins' pardon and believed it signaled to Trump-backed sheriffs that “they can be immune to action.”
“The magazine's vigilance will be supercharged over the next four years,” Kristol wrote for the fort.
Magic Loyalist, Biden antagonist
Nevada politician Michele Fiore, a decade-long magician loyalist, was pardoned in April. Fiore was convicted after raising more than $70,000 in statues for the murdered Las Vegas police but spent some donations on cosmetic surgery, rent and her daughter's wedding.
Brian Kalt, constitutional expert at Michigan State University [Trump] They can be identified as victims of prosecution with political motives. ”
Trump said that in terms of pardon for Nikola Electric Vehicle founder Trevor Milton, Trump said: “What they said he did wrong was that he was one of the first to support a gentleman named Donald Trump.”
In response to the president's comments, the nonprofit regulator responsible and ethical citizen of Crew said: “Well, surely one thing: Trevor Milton and his wife donated more than $1.8 million to the Trump 47 Commission in the weeks leading up to the election.”
It has not escaped notice yet, with Democrat Milton convicted of legal terrorism, represented by Brad Bondi, brother of current Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi and Marc Mukasey, representing the Trump Organization.
For those who, by chance, rather than coincidence, Biden’s children have drawn pardons with adverse eyes, there are pardons and sentence commuters.
Jason Galanis and Devon Archer gave key testimony to one-time business partner Hunter Biden, whose son was sentenced on Capitol Hill for cheating on Indigenous tribes in Trump’s separate deal.
Paul Walczak, the son of a Trump main donor, was convicted of income tax fraud and ordered to pay more than $4 million in damages, and was granted another pardon from the crew and the Democratic Party. The New York Times title describes the presidential action: Trump pardons executives, his family attempts to promote Ashley Biden's diary.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Volkake pardon:
Trump's Justice Department Weapons: Legal Analyst
The president has broad power in condolences of federal crimes or fair judgments, and as an act of mercy or justice, the Democratic president faces criticism in some cases: Jimmy Carter involved an executive action involving folk singer Peter Yarrow and kidnapped the heir Patricia Hearst, and the forgiveness of Bill Clinton to pardon Marc Rich, his international Marc Rich, whose former spouse was a Democrat.
However, according to Liz Oyer, the cost of these 2025 pardons is huge. Oyer, a former chief pardon lawyer, sued the government after being fired in March, argued in a series of Tiktok videos that it was not just suboptimal optics.
That cost the taxpayer the price, Oyer said, because the court no longer asks the pardon to repay the unfair gains. She estimates that so far, the total debt removed from books has exceeded $1.2 billion.
Biden is the second president in more than a century, with his overall pardon in hundreds, if not thousands, without numbers in hundreds, according to Pew Research. But of the 80 he awarded, he has been criticized for being hated by many of Trump magazine's supporters, including Dr. Anthony Fauci and military leader Mark Milley.
Legal analyst Dan Abrams, founder of Mediaite and host of Sirius radio show, was at that camp but said last week that he changed his mind.
“President Biden is right to pardon these people, even if that sets a terrible precedent; what we have seen is [so far] What's worse is,” he said.
Abrams said he changed his mind because “it's clear now that this government will use it [Department of Justice] As a weapon, “pointing a series of threats from the White House and its cabinet members to investigate former or current Trump critics, from former FBI Director James Comey’s Seashell show on the beach, to former cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs, a former Trump administration’s cybersecurity expert. In addition, Democratic Congressman Lamonica McIver was charged with accused of being a delegate who was accused of being an immigrant.
U.S. President Donald Trump claims that Joe Biden has granted a “revoked” pardon, deeming them invalid because they are signed by Autopen, a machine that can copy a person’s signature. Andrew Chang broke the backing of whether Trump has such legal authority and how much he said is supported by evidence.
“We can't leave those guys behind”
Trump was prosecuted in three cases following the November election victory until three of them disappeared, and he spent a lot of time on the campaign trails about the judicial system, saying he was a weapon to weapons against Republicans.
Democrats point out that despite the imitation of these claims by some Republican congressmen, Biden's Justice Department appears to be disrespectful. Prosecuted Hunter Biden, Democratic lawmakers Bob Menendez and Henry Cuellar, and Democratic Mayor Eric Adams.
It is unclear whether federal prosecutors in the administration will actively investigate Republicans' crimes. But during Trump's first term, Justice Department officials tried to intervene in the judgment on behalf of Roger Stone and Michael Flynn during his first term, and Trump loyalists were charged with federal crimes. Both Stone and Flynn were pardoned.
Trump hired loyalist Ed Martin to replace Oyer as Palton's lawyer. Martin was initially elected as chief attorney for Washington, D.C., but given his steadfast support for the 2021 Capitol Rioters, the Senate confirmation seems doomed, including the claimed white supremacist Martin being called a friend.
Martin, who does not need a new Senate position, recently told a broadcaster that he had a “scrutiny” of his belief in the two men convicted in federal court for their plot to kidnap Michigan State Government Gretchen Whitmer, adding: “We can't leave those guys behind.”
Martin celebrated the pardon for Jenkins in a series of social media posts Monday night, including “an article left by no Maga.”
