Analysis: The very political pattern of Trump’s pardons
Billionaire Conrad Black arrives at the federal building in Chicago on Jan 13, 2011. By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow May 16 at 8:45 AM President Trump’s pardons were self-serving before, and they became even more so Wednesday night, after he pardoned two prominent conservatives who had already completed their sentences.
The second pardon went to Patrick J. Nolan, the former Republican leader of the California state assembly. This one is less obviously self-serving, but it is. Nolan has been a prominent conservative voice for criminal justice reform since finishing his sentence and has served in prison ministry. But he, like Black, is close to the Trump family.
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