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Key adviser to the president on clemency
Yes — based on the reporting provided, Donald Trump remains a convicted felon: a New York jury found him guilty on 34 counts of first‑degree falsifying business records on May 30, 2024, and he was sen...
Donald Trump has used his clemency power to pardon or commute multiple people tied to large-scale drug trafficking, drug marketplaces and related criminal enterprises — most prominently Ross Ulbricht ...
Multiple reports and investigations allege that individuals sought to buy access to pardons during and after Donald Trump’s first term and that a private channel — outside the Justice Department’s Off...
Donald Trump has pardoned or promised clemency to multiple people convicted of federal drug offenses across his presidencies, most prominently Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road) in January 2025 and — in late N...
President Donald J. Trump has granted clemency to more than 1,600 people since returning to the White House in January 2025, a tally that includes mass pardons and numerous individual pardons and comm...
Multiple public trackers, congressional statements and reporting document numerous allegations and actions tied to Donald Trump that critics call corruption — including civil fraud findings in New Yor...
Joe Biden granted far more acts of clemency than recent predecessors, with Pew reporting his commutations alone were more than double Barack Obama’s 1,715 commutations during Obama’s eight years . Don...
Donald J. Trump’s second-term clemency record includes at least one mass pardon on Jan. 20, 2025 that covered “nearly 1,600” people tied to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach, and by November 2025 report...
The president’s clemency power is limited to “Offences against the United States” — in other words, federal crimes — and does not extend to state criminal offenses; governors and state clemency system...
The core factual dispute is whether holds the record for the most pardons or clemency actions in U.S. history. Contemporary government tallies and historical compilations indicate while President Joe ...
Available reporting shows President Donald Trump has issued a large, fast-moving slate of clemency actions in his second term — including a mass Jan. 20, 2025 pardon of more than 1,500 people tied to ...
There are no explicit FOIA releases in the supplied documents that name “William Kyle Riley” in full; the materials supplied show FOIA logs and public FOIA libraries at NARA and DOJ that contain many ...
President Joe Biden granted 80 pardons and 4,165 commutations during his four-year term, for a total of 4,245 acts of clemency — a record high for a modern president driven largely by mass commutation...
The official, authoritative source for presidential pardons and commutations is the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney (OPA), which maintains dedicated pages and downloadable w...
Barack Obama granted between 70 and 212 presidential pardons during his presidency depending on how sources count discrete actions; the Department of Justice and White House archival pages list a deta...
Barack Obama issued a large number of clemency actions during his presidency: available official counts show he granted 212 pardons and 1,715 commutations for a total often cited as 1,927 acts of clem...
Donald Trump granted 237 acts of clemency in his first presidency (2017–2021), which reporting breaks down as 143 pardons and 94 commutations during that term . Reporting from 2025 shows a dramatic su...
The President’s constitutional pardon power is confined to —“offences against the United States”—and does not reach state or local crimes; state clemency is handled through governors or state procedur...
President Joe Biden’s administration issued 4,245 acts of clemency during his four-year term, a figure presented by multiple outlets and government compilations as a presidential record . That total i...
Donald Trump has granted clemency to high-profile individuals convicted of federal drug crimes in multiple actions: reporting shows he pardoned or commuted at least 13 people convicted of federal drug...