President Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, on Dec. 1, claiming without evidence that his prosecution had been a "setup" by the Biden administration and that Hernández was targeted because he was president of a country where drug cartels operated.

President Trump took pardon abuse to a new level this year with a string of dubious clemencies that together present a unique case study in how this unfettered executive power can be used to degrade, corrupt and politicize the justice system.

If you’re confused by the White House’s message on drugs right now, you’re not alone — because the logic simply doesn’t add up.

President Donald Trump granted clemency to nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 defendants, cryptocurrency executive Changpeng Zhao, former Representative George Santos and others in 2025.

The facts in the cases of Nicolás Maduro and Juan Orlando Hernández are strikingly similar. The men’s fates are not.

California Democrat Mike Levin is co-sponsoring a constitutional amendment "to reform the pardon power," he announced on X.

NorthJersey.com looks back five years later at one of the darkest days in American history with an interview with one of the pardoned J6 participants.

It’s been five years since a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to disrupt the certification of the presidential election that he lost. A much smaller but ardent crowd of his supporters returned to the site of the 2021 insurrection,

Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.

Less than one year ago, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people convicted or charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The post Beg Your Pardon? Trump Appointee Claims the President Won’t ‘Pardon People for Committing Crimes’ first appeared on Mediaite.