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Trump issues additional pardons for two January 6 rioters

Months after President Donald Trump began his second term, pardoning individuals who were convicted of crimes related to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, he’s issuing new pardons. The first of this new batch went to a militia member who was convicted of a separate Kentucky firearms charge that wasn’t included in his initial pardon and the second to a woman who threatened to shoot FBI agents. The District of Columbia rejected an April appeal for Dan Wilson, […]

todayNovember 15, 2025

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President Trump pardons baseball legend Darryl Strawberry: ‘This has nothing to do with politics’

Baseball legend Darryl Strawberry received a full pardon from President Donald Trump for a federal conviction dating back 30 years. Strawberry, 63, pled guilty to tax evasion in 1995 from failing to report $350,000 in income from autographs, personal appearances and sales of memorabilia. He served 6 months of home confinement and two years of probation. The MLB all-star, who suffered from colon cancer in the ’90s, was also sentenced to probation and suspended from baseball after he pleaded no […]

todayNovember 7, 2025

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Joy Reid warns Black communities to not be fooled by Trump’s recent pardons

This week, Donald Trump signed 16 pardons, including rapper NBA YoungBoy and reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, and six commutations to reduce the sentences of convicted criminals like Larry Hoover.  While Trump’s decision has sparked outrage and discourse on social media, journalist and political analyst Joy Reid encourages constituents not to be fooled by the president’s recent actions.  “The Trump regime [or] current administration, whatever you want to call them, is trying to reset and reestablish what criminality means,” […]

todayMay 30, 2025 1

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Alice Johnson, Trump’s pardon czar, seen by some as Black political ‘token’ amid controversial pardons

As President Donald Trump announced his pardons for reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley during an Oval Office call on Tuesday, his newly minted “pardon czar,” Alice Johnson, stood proudly beside him. Trump pardoned Johnson in 2018 after she served more than 20 years of her life sentence in prison for a 1996 drug trafficking conviction. The Mississippi grandmother became the face of Trump’s First Step Act, a bipartisan law that made several reforms to the criminal justice system, […]

todayMay 29, 2025 1

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Trump pardons ‘white celebrities’ who committed tax and fraud crimes. Here’s why critics say that’s scary.

After issuing a series of high-profile pardons to individuals accused of committing tax and bank fraud, among other offenses, President Donald Trump is being accused of using the presidency to extend favors to friends and supporters, normalizing white-color crimes similar to those he himself has been convicted of or accused of committing. On Tuesday, President Trump pardoned reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted in 2022 for financial fraud and tax evasion. Their daughter, Savannah Chrisley, was […]

todayMay 29, 2025 1

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President Trump pardons NBA YoungBoy: ‘This moment means a lot,’ rapper says

President Donald Trump issued a full pardon for rapper NBA YoungBoy on Wednesday as part of a marathon of presidential pardons and clemencies announced this week. “I want to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and giving me the opportunity to keep building — as a man, as a father, and as an artist,” the rapper, whose real name is Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, said in a statement posted on Instagram. NBA YoungBoy, a 25-year-old multi-platinum artist, has been […]

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Trump draws outrage with pardons for DC officers convicted in death and coverup of Black motorist

Advocates are slamming President Donald Trump‘s decision to issue pardons for two D.C. police officers who were convicted in the death and subsequent coverup of a Black motorist. “President Trump’s first-week pardons make it clear he has no respect for democracy or the rule of law in D.C. or anywhere else,” said Markus Batchelor, a former D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) commissioner and national political director at People For the American Way. Andrew Zabavsky and Terence Sutton received “full and […]

todayJanuary 24, 2025

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Trump sets out to erase Biden’s legacy with pardons and orders immediately after taking office

Donald Trump began erasing Joe Biden ’s legacy immediately after taking office as the nation’s 47th president on Monday, pardoning nearly all of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and issuing a blizzard of executive orders that signal his desire to remake American institutions. It was an aggressive start for a returning president who feels emboldened and vindicated by his unprecedented political comeback. Four years after being voted out of the White House, Trump has a second chance to launch what […]

todayJanuary 21, 2025

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Just minutes before he leaves office, Biden pardons his siblings and their spouses

President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.” “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” he said. He issued a slew of pardons and commutations in the moments before leaving office, including for aides and allies that have been targeted by Donald Trump. None have been charged […]

todayJanuary 21, 2025