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Presidential Pardons
July 31, 2024
Paige Oamek
Trump Gets Awkward Reminder as He Vows to Pardon January 6 Rioters
Donald Trump keeps falsely insisting the rioters are innocent.
April 23, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Tried to Strike a Wild Deal with Classified Docs Co-Defendant
The former president allegedly asked his body man Walt Nauta to lie on his behalf.
April 4, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Karl Rove Shockingly Torches Donald Trump’s January 6 Comments
The George W. Bush adviser slammed Trump’s promise to pardon January 6 rioters.
January 20, 2021
Matt Ford
Trump’s Final Act of Extraordinary Corruption
The president goes out on a seamy and haphazard note, pardoning those who did crimes on his behalf.
December 2, 2020
Matt Ford
The Most Unpardonable Presidential Power
Donald Trump is taking lame-duck pardons to obscene new levels, but he had a boost from his predecessors.
August 29, 2019
Osita Nwanevu
The Border Wall Is Trump’s High Crime
There's no better reason for Democrats to impeach him.
July 23, 2013
John B. Judis
Obama Should Just Pardon Bradley Manning
It's an elegant way out of the leak controversies
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