For the first few years of his term Trump used his unlimited pardon power sparingly [1], starting with his pardon of pugnacious, racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was found guilty of contempt of court.  Nothing wrong with showing contempt, Trump reasoned, if the judge is a complete fucking asshole who won’t even let you run outdoor concentration camps for dirty brown people in the brutal heat of the desert.   After he lost the election in 2020, in a landslide, Trump’s pardoning power went into overdrive.  Jared wasn’t lying when he said, under oath, that he was too busy pushing pardons to pay much attention to White House counsel whining about proposed illegal actions by the president.  Jared was busy!  You can see the full list of Trump pardons here, including the feverish flurry at the end:

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-j-trump-2017-2021

Did you realize that Trump’s pardon wiped out a combined $51,000,000 in fines and restitution imposed on the infamous scumbag duo of Stone and Manafort?    Nice going, Jared!  

[1] Here’s how Trump compares to other presidents in granting pardons and clemency:

Despite a burst of pardons and commutations in his last hours in office, Donald Trump used his executive clemency power less frequently than nearly every other president since the turn of the 20th century, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Justice Department data.

Trump granted 237 acts of clemency during his four years in the White House, including 143 pardons and 94 commutations. Only two other presidents since 1900 – George W. and George H.W. Bush – granted fewer acts of clemency than Trump.

His predecessor, Barack Obama, granted clemency 1,927 times over the course of eight years in office, the highest total of any president going back to Harry Truman. Obama’s total was skewed heavily toward commutations (1,715) instead of pardons (212).

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