President Donald Trump campaigned on pardoning the January 6th political prisoners on day one, and the President kept his promise, pardoning a historic number of people in his first week. Trump has also issued a variety of pardons to other individuals, such as the 20 pro-lifers convicted by the Biden Department of Justice, who were prosecuted for praying at abortion clinics.
Trump pardoned or granted clemency to 237 people in his first term, many of them at the very end of his term in 2020. So far, just two weeks into Trump’s new term, he has pardoned over 1,500 individuals.
Several however, are still quietly lobbying the new Trump administration and its key staffers looking for pardons, hoping that their cases are not lost in the fast-paced Trump administration.
Just yesterday, Trump was lukewarm to a reporter’s question about a pardon for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Last May, Trump said he would give “very serious consideration” to pardoning Wikileaks’ Julian Assange.
But lesser-known individuals also still seeking pardons range from former Congressmen to pastors to State Senators and Bitcoin billionaires.
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