Past Pardons

Trump’s Pardons, To Date

Michael Flynn 2020 — Making false statements to the FBI; other charges were dropped, including acting as an undeclared foreign agent.

Joseph Arpaio  2017 — Contempt of court. Trump supporter. Could be indicted on other charges from the orig. incidents, still.

Kristian Saucier  2018  — Took photos in a submarine; unauthorized retention of nat’l defense info.

Lewis Scooter Libby 2018  — CIA leak scandal concerning Valerie Plame

Jack Johnson 2018 — This pardon corrects a historical outrage (1920), that a black man should be convicted of white slavery for traveling with a white woman over state lines.

Dinesh D’Souza 2018 — Campaign contribution fraud.

Dwight Hammond 2018 — arson during trespassing on fed. property with Ammon Bundy. 

Steven Hammond 2018 — arson during trespassing on fed. property with Ammon Bundy. 

Michael Behenna 2019 — murder, assault of Iraqi man.

Conrad Black 2019 — mail fraud, obst. of justice. Friend of Trump, also his biographer.

Pat Nolan 2019 — soliciting illegal campaign contributions.

John Bubala 2019 — Theft? “Conversion of gov’t property.”

Roy McKeever 2019 — Drug charges.

Rodney Takumi 2019 — Working in illegal gambling.

Michael Tedesco 2019 — Drug dealing;  this was an Obama pardon that didn’t get completed.

Chalmer Lee Williams 2019 — Firearms charges.

Zay Jeffries 2019 — Another historical pardon, of a man who helped develop nuclear weapons.

Mathew Golsteyn 2019 — Murder of an Afghan man. Considered a war crime.

Clint Lorance 2019 — Murder of Afghan nationals. Considered a war crime.

Edward DeBartolo 2020 — Bribery to obtain a casino gambling license.

Michael Milken 2020 — Securities fraud and more. For offenses dating to 1990.

Angela Stanton 2020 — Transporting a stolen vehicle across states, fraud. She had run against Rep. John Lewis and then tried to get his seat again after his death.

Ariel Friedler 2020 — Hacking.

David Safavian 2020 — Perjury, obst. of justice. He represented Jack Abramoff, who was arrested in various scandals.

Paul Pogue 2020 — Tax underpayment, false tax return.

Bernard Kerik 2020 — Tax violations

Susan B. Anthony 2020 — A historical pardon for a woman who committed the offense of voting in the presidential election, when women did not yet have the right to. (She was fined $100.)

John Ponder 2020 — Bank robbery. This pardon was announced at the RNC convention.

Alice Marie Johnson 2020 — Drug charges. First Trump commuted her sentence after being asked to by Kim Kardashian, then later fully pardoned her.


Commutations of sentence include:

Rod Blagojevich

Roger Stone

Reversal of Court-Martial:

Eddie Gallagher — Navy SEAL, demoted for a war crime.

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