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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...
Public reporting does not produce a single, definitive tally of “fraudsters” pardoned by ; available sources show at least dozens of clemencies that involve white‑collar or fraud‑related convictions a...
Donald Trump’s most high-profile clemency actions in 2025 include blanket pardons and mass grants for January 6 defendants (nearly 1,600 people), pardons of top allies who tried to overturn the 2020 e...
Multiple reputable outlets and watchdogs report that a significant number of people pardoned by President Trump in 2025 had prior political or financial ties to him, including campaign donations, atte...
Available reporting shows many of President Trump’s 2025 pardons involved people with political, personal, or financial ties to him — including donors, campaign allies and lawyers who worked on electi...
Donald J. Trump’s 2017–2021 clemency actions included a substantial number of , reflecting a pattern noted across multiple reports and compilations of his 237 clemency actions . Contemporary news outl...
Three well‑reported have clear, documented links to people who gave large sums to Trump‑linked PACs or attended high‑dollar fundraising events: the pardons tied to banker (with his daughter’s big dona...
are an expansive constitutional power that have repeatedly produced high-profile controversy when used to shield allies, family members, political allies or foreign figures, and when timed or framed i...
A narrow set of pardons in 2025–2026 have clear, reported ties to sizable campaign donations: notably the pardon of banker (and related co-defendants) after his daughter gave millions to , and the par...
A precise, single-number answer cannot be produced from the available reporting because no source in the provided set publishes an authoritative tally that classifies every clemency recipient as a fam...
Donald Trump’s clemency record in 2025 emphasized political allies, January 6 defendants and high‑profile white‑collar figures — including mass pardons for those tied to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and ...
Documented ties between President Trump and multiple recent pardon recipients include sizeable campaign donations (Trevor Milton and others), attendance at high-dollar Mar‑a‑Lago fundraisers tied to p...
Donald Trump issued 237 clemency actions in his first term (2017–2021), including 144 pardons and 93 commutations, and several grants during that period involved political allies, campaign advisers an...
President Trump’s second-term use of clemency has been expansive: on Inauguration Day he issued a mass pardon covering nearly everyone charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack—reported as roughly 1,500–1,6...
President Donald Trump has issued mass and individual pardons in his second term for roughly 1,500 people tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach and dozens of other allies, donors and business figur...