Oh look, from today:
Trump Pardons UK Billionaire Joe Lewis Over Insider Trading
And from Friday:
Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election
Pardon recipients include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman and dozens more.
(These most recent pardon recipients appear to have given Trump approximately $250,000 in combined political donations through 2025, according to Federal Election Commission filings, with
David Hanna, a Georgia elector and CEO of Atlanticus Holdings Corporation,
giving the most at $145,500.)
October 21
Changpeng “CZ” Zhao: Trump pardoned the billionaire Binance founder after Zhao’s company worked extensively with the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial business, with World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin used for a $2 billion investment made in Binance earlier this fall.
October 17
George Santos: Trump pardoned the disgraced former New York congressman after his campaign donated $2,800 to Trump’s reelection campaign in September 2019, according to FEC filings, with Santos’ campaign also spending nearly $1,000 on stays at the Trump Organization’s former Washington, D.C., hotel.
May 28
Imaad Shah Zuberi: Trump commuted the sentence of Zuberi, a fundraiser and venture capitalist, after he was convicted of crimes that partially stemmed from a $900,000 donation his company Avenue Ventures made to Trump’s first inaugural committee in 2017.
Zuberi, who was also indicted for concealing his work as a foreign agent, separately donated a combined $225,000 to Trump’s various political committees in 2017 and 2018, according to FEC filings.
April 23
Paul Walczak: Trump pardoned Walczak, a former nursing home executive who pleaded guilty to tax crimes, only weeks after his mother Elizabeth Fago attended a $1 million fundraiser for Trump that promised “face-to-face access” to the president.
March 27
Trevor Milton: Trump pardoned Milton, the founder of startup Nikola Motor, after the billionaire donated approximately $946,000 to Trump since 2016, $900,000 less than a month before the 2024 election.
Milton’s wife, Chelsey Virginia Milton, also separately gave a combined $927,900 to Trump’s reelection campaign in October 2024.
March 27
HDR Global Trading Ltd and Bitmex Founders: Trump pardoned HDR Global Trading Ltd., the parent company of crypto exchange BitMEX, and several of its founders and ex-employees after the company and its workers were convicted for violating the Bank Secrecy Act, with the pardons also viewed as another way Trump boosted the cryptocurrency industry that is significantly enriching him and his family.
BitMEX allows customers to trade Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin and World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token on its platform—with Reuters and crypto outlets noting the exchange listed $TRUMP faster than many other competitors.
Trump in February issued a full pardon for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, after having commuted Blagojevich's prison sentence during his first term as president. Former Cincinnati City Council member P.G. Sittenfeld received his own pardon in May following his conviction on federal bribery and attempted extortion charges in 2022.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said in June that Trump had pardoned a total of 16 former elected officials convicted of corruption charges.
In May, Trump pardoned former Virginia Sheriff Scott Jenkins, an ardent Trump supporter who was convicted of taking bribes from local businessmen in exchange for auxiliary deputy badges.
President Trump issued pardons for some 1,500 defendants who participated in the siege on the U.S. Capitol four years ago
At least 10 January 6th insurrectionists pardoned by President Trump have already been rearrested, charged or sentenced for other crimes. The crimes include plotting murder of FBI agents, child sexual assault, possession of child sexual abuse material and reckless homicide while driving drunk.