What do they have in common?
And while US presidents have doled out questionable pardons in the past, Trump is doing so “in a bigger, more aggressive way with sort of no sense of shame,“ said Kermit Roosevelt, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
“Most presidents have issued at least some pardons where people look at them and they say: ‘This seems to be self-serving’ or ‘This seems to be corrupt in some way.’”
Among those receiving a pardon was Paul Walczak, a nursing home executive convicted of tax crimes and whose mother attended a $1-million-per-plate fund-raising dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in April.
Their daughter, Savannah, is a prominent Trump supporter and gave a speech at last year’s Republican National Convention.
On his first day in office, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 supporters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 as they sought to prevent congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
‘Just another deal’
Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton’s pardon of a commodities trader whose wife was a major Democratic donor and Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter, and other family members all drew some criticism.
“To him, pardons are just another deal.
Democratic lawmaker Jamie Raskin, in a letter to Ed Martin, Trump’s pardon attorney at the Justice Department, asked what criteria are being used to recommend pardons.
Martin for his part has made no secret of the partisan nature of the pardons recommended by his office.
Lee Kovarsky, a University of Texas law professor, said Trump’s “pardon spree” opens up a “menacing new frontier of presidential power” that he calls “patronage pardoning.”
By reducing the penalty for misconduct, Trump is making a “public commitment to protect and reward loyalism, however criminal,“ Kovarsky said in a New York Times opinion piece.
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