presidential pardons

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Trump voters call president's pardon of corrupt Virginia sheriff 'a terrific mistake'

6:55pm June 02, 2025

by Frank Langfitt

Many in Virginia's Culpeper County are unhappy with the president's pardon of a sheriff convicted of bribery. Trump called him a victim "persecuted by the Radical Left 'monsters' and 'left for dead.'"

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Which Biden-era case is the FBI NOT reexamining? Find out in the quiz

5:00am May 30, 2025

This week, vaccines took a hit from the Trump administration, some reality TV stars got pardoned, and there was a media frenzy around a certain French interaction. Were you paying attention?

Former IL Governor Blagojevich Files Suit In Order To Run For State Office Again

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Trump pardons disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich

6:45pm February 10, 2025

Blagojevich was convicted on corruption charges for trying to sell a Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Trump commuted the former governor's sentence in 2020.

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A Jan. 6 defendant tells NPR why she turned down Trump's pardon

8:27pm January 23, 2025

Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and spent 60 days behind bars for her role in the Capitol riots, says she no longer believes the lies President Trump promoted.

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Trump Supporters Hold "Stop The Steal" Rally In DC Amid Ratification Of Presidential Election

Trump offers long-promised pardons to some 1,500 January 6 rioters

8:03pm January 20, 2025

On the campaign trail, Trump regularly featured the stories of Jan. 6 defendants he labeled "hostages" and "patriots."

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Biden pardons Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, Black nationalist Marcus Garvey

11:40am January 19, 2025

President Joe Biden pardons five people and commutes the sentence of two others who "made significant contributions to improving their communities."

Kim Kardashian met with Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss criminal justice reform.

Politics & Government

Kim Kardashian visits the White House to highlight criminal justice reform

4:41pm April 25, 2024

by Deepa Shivaram

Vice President Harris and Kardashian are meeting with four people convicted of non-violent drug offenses who received pardons this week from President Biden.

Blackwater guards, from left, Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough were pardoned by President Trump this week. The former government contractors were convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more a dozen Iraqi civilians de

Shock And Dismay After Trump Pardons Blackwater Guards Who Killed 14 Iraqi Civilians

8:14pm December 23, 2020

by Laurel Wamsley

"We were surprised that the American president issued a decision to pardon these criminals, murderers and thugs," says an Iraqi man who was shot in the 2007 massacre at Baghdad's Nisour Square.

President Trump commuted the sentence of and later pardoned Alice Marie Johnson, who had received a life term in a drug case.

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Opinion: The Truth About Pardons

6:22pm December 05, 2020

by Scott Simon

The history of presidential pardons is often surprising — and revealing.

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Michael Cohen, former lawyer to President Trump, leaves the federal courthouse Tuesday in New York City.

Michael Cohen's Lawyer Says His Client Would Never Accept Pardon From 'Corrupt' Trump

1:39pm August 22, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Trump's longtime attorney and fixer pleaded guilty Tuesday to eight counts. Lawyer Lanny Davis tells NPR that Cohen considers Trump "to be both corrupt and a dangerous person in the Oval Office."

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