A banker's daughter gave Trump's super PAC $3.5M and pledged $2.5M to his ballroom.
Trump then pardoned her father, who had been charged in a bribery scheme.
Swamp Watch / Topics / Pardons and clemency
TopicPardons and clemency
The president's pardon power is nearly absolute for federal crimes, and there is no requirement to explain a pardon. So the public has to look at the pattern itself: who received clemency, and who gave money or support beforehand.
Our receipts on pardons set each grant of clemency beside the public record of donations, lobbying, and political support that came before it.
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Trump has granted clemency to at least 85 public officials charged in corruption cases.
They were spared 130 years behind bars and over $15 million in penalties.
Trump said he expected Rep. Henry Cuellar to switch parties after pardoning his bribery case.
"I guess I expected maybe he wouldn't run, or maybe he'd run maybe as a Republican."
RFK Jr. lobbied Trump to pardon fraudster Trevor Milton, a $750,000 PAC donor.
The pardon wiped out up to $660 million he could have owed his victims.
Trump PARDONED a GOP official who spent police memorial donations on plastic surgery.
He has never explained why.
