In a sharp political move, US President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is investigating pardons issued by former President Joe Biden, including those granted to family members and death row inmates. According to an internal email seen by Reuters, Ed Martin, the department’s pardon attorney, told staff he had been “directed to investigate” whether Biden was…
Trevor Milton, the founder of electric vehicle start-up Nikola who was sentenced to prison last year, was pardoned by President Donald Trump, the White House confirmed Friday. The pardon of Milton, who was sentenced to four years in prison for exaggerating the potential of his technology, could wipe out hundreds of millions of dollars in…
Trevor Milton, who was convicted by a federal jury in 2022 of defrauding investors in the electric truck maker Nikola, has received a pardon from President Trump, the White House confirmed. Mr. Milton, who founded and is the former chief executive of Nikola, was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $1 million after…
President Donald Trump said on Monday he was ending “immediately” the Secret Service protection details assigned to Democrat Joe Biden’s adult children, which the former president had extended to July shortly before leaving office in January. The Republican president on social media objected to what he said were 18 agents assigned to Hunter Biden’s protective…
The autopen is in the news after US President Donald Trump accused his predecessor Joe Biden of using the mechanical device to sign the pardoning documents. The US president has said that all pardons signed by Joe Biden are invalid. In a post on Truth Social, he said, “The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave…
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s second week in office seemed to deliver a daily dose of deliberate jolts for the country. There were chaotic reminders of his first term. The White House found itself backtracking on its directive to freeze federal spending on grants and loans. And the Republican president indulged unsupported accusations after a deadly…
US President Donald Trump signed pardons for 23 anti-abortion protesters on Thursday, the White House said, including a set of people convicted of blockading a clinic entrance. The people had been tried for conspiring in 2020 to overrun a Washington reproductive health clinic and setting up a blockade to intimidate patients and staff. Officials said…
The presidential pardon is one of the most sweeping powers granted to the President of the United States under the country’s Constitution. Rooted in history that stretches back to Ancient Greece, Rome, and the English monarchy, this authority was envisioned by America’s founding fathers as a mechanism to serve public welfare and dispense mercy. Alexander…
President Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency and libertarian worlds. In doing so, Mr. Trump fulfilled a promise that he made repeatedly on the campaign trail as he courted political contributions from the crypto industry, which spent…
Outgoing US President Joe Biden has issued pardons to Dr Anthony Fauci, retired General Mark Milley, and members of the House Committee that investigated the Capitol Hill attacks. This decision comes hours before Donald Trump is set to take oath as the 47th President of the United States. The move is seen as an attempt…