The flourishing industry of presidential pardons breaks records in Trump’s Washington

The latest beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s clemency were five retired American football players. Convicted of drug trafficking and perjury, they joined the crowded club of those pardoned by the U.S. president on February 12, following his return to the White House. That list already included cryptocurrency billionaires, Republican politicians, reality TV stars, and even former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced to 45 years for his role in smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States.

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