Rep. Matt Gaetz sought a preemptive pardon from Trump over an investigation into whether he sex-trafficked a 17-year-old, WaPo reports

Rep. Matt Gaetz addresses attendees during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit on July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Florida. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP Photo The Washington Post reported Gaetz sought a preemptive presidential pardon in a sex trafficking investigation. Sources told WaPo that Johnny McEntee, a White House official, testified he received the request from […]

SNL Casts Steve Martin as Roger Stone — Watch Him Beg Trump for a Pardon

Saturday Night Live briefly turned one of the most likable actors in Hollywood into one of the most reviled men in America. No stranger to the program, Steve Martin made a special appearance atop this week’s SNL, playing the freshly incarcerated Roger Stone. Martin’s Stone was a guest on Tucker Carlson Tonight, with Alex Moffat […]

Rudy Giuliani reportedly said he and Trump discussed a possible pardon for Manafort, but said they’re unsure about the political fallout

Drew Angerer/Getty President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani talked about the pros and cons of pardoning Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Manafort was convicted on eight counts of financial fraud a day earlier. Trump has since distanced himself from Manafort and asserted that “it doesn’t […]

Kim Kardashian says she’s lobbying Jared Kushner to get a presidential pardon for a woman serving life in prison over drugs

Getty/Business Insider Kim Kardashian West and Jared Kushner have been discussing the possibility of getting Donald Trump to pardon a woman serving life in prison. Alice Marie Johnson — a first-time, non-violent drug offender who is now 62 — has been in federal prison since 1996. Kardashian West and Kushner have reportedly been talking for […]

A controversial pardon and a key departure: Here’s everything that happened in a wild Friday news dump from the White House

Adrees Latif/Reuters As Hurricane Harvey headed for the coast of Texas Friday night, a storm of news was also breaking. Within a period of a few hours, President Donald Trump pardoned controversial former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and directed the Pentagon to place an indefinite ban on transgender individuals joining the military. Meanwhile, White House adviser Sebastian […]

‘A middle finger to America’: What people are saying about Trump’s first presidential pardon

AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Maricopa C0unty, Arizona, sheriff Joe Arpaio received some mixed reactions on Friday night, but lawmakers and civil-rights advocates largely condemned the move. Arpaio, a staunch Trump supporter and compatriot in Trump’s yearslong and fruitless quest to disprove President Barack Obama’s citizenship, was found guilty last month […]

Unrepentant Trump fires back at media over Charlottesville, hints at Arpaio pardon in Phoenix

President Donald Trump hammered the “very dishonest media” as he repeated his statements on deadly political violence in Charlottesville. The crowd in Phoenix were also thrilled to hear Trump say ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio “is going to be just fine.” Trump also attacked Republicans and Democrats in Congress during the campaign-style rally Tuesday evening in Phoenix, […]

Pardon Me?

Daniel Zalkus for BuzzFeed News President Trump has yet to announce a grant of a single pardon or commutation. But he already has signaled — in a Saturday morning tweet, of course — that his use of that power could be expansive. He wrote that everyone agrees he “has the complete power to pardon.” Here’s […]

If Trump tries to pardon himself, one of our most important forefathers may be responsible

Thomson Reuters If President Donald Trump tries to pardon himself, one of our most important forefathers may be responsible. Last week, the Washington Post reported that Trump discussed with aides whether he could pardon himself in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his campaign’s possible collusion with the Kremlin. The report set off […]