Why did the president pardon a campaign donor who'd been convicted of crimes related to defrauding investors? Trump struggled with the question.

Trevor Milton was sentenced to four years in prison for exaggerating his technology’s potential. He and his wife donated nearly $2M to a Trump reelection campaign fund.

Arthur Hayes, the former CEO of BitMEX, pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Bank Secrecy Act and was sentenced to two years probation.

The president was raising the point that, ‘Did the president even know about these pardons? Was his legal signature used without his consent or knowledge?'” Leavitt said at her

A federal judge in 2023 sentenced former Nikola CEO Trevor Milton to four years in prison for lying to investors. The president pardoned him Thursday.

Trump then pardoned more than 1,500 rioters in his first days in the White House, including those convicted of maiming law enforcers. And on Sunday, the president amplified the threat against the Jan. 6 investigators, saying their pardons were invalid ...

Legal scholars say that the Constitution doesn’t require a pardon’s direct human signing, and subsequent judicial decisions and legal memoranda support an autopen’s use for similar purposes.

President Trump pardoned Nikola founder Trevor Milton, who had been convicted of fraud in federal court for what prosecutors said were his lies to investors about his zero-emissions trucks. Milton said Thursday he had received the pardon,