At a very minimum his pardons seem to favor those who have contributed to his campaign and many who he has previously done business with. But the real question is, is he getting paid for the pardons? Many of these pardons are being given to criminals who are ultra rich and I am speculating that he's getting between 25 and 50 million dollars per pardon into his own pocket. A billion dollar pardon industry? Perhaps. Likely? I think so.

In the last year, 23 people pardoned by Trump owed more than $100,000 each in fines, restitution or both, with the total exceeding $298 million. It’s not clear whether victims or the government ever received that money.

Those with the highest totals are the cryptocurrency company HDR Global Trading Limited, which was fined $100 million for dodging anti-money laundering requirements; the Binance founder Zhao, who owed $50 million for a similar crime; and businessman Devon Archer, who was ordered to pay back most of the approximately $60 million he was convicted of defrauding from the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

Thursday’s pardons added two names to the top of the list: siblings Adriana Isabel and Andres Enrique Camberos, who were convicted in a scheme to sell millions of counterfeit bottles of 5-Hour Energy and ordered to pay $49 million in restitution. Adriana Camberos received a commutation from Trump in his first term for a different crime.

Barack Obama, in his two terms as president, pardoned three people who owed more than $100,000, including one who was ordered to pay over $1 million in both fines and restitution, according to government pardon data. In his four years in office, President Joe Biden pardoned two people who owed more than $100,000.

In the four years of his first term, Trump’s pardons nullified convictions that resulted in more than $276 million in fines and restitution. Obama’s pardon recipients owed $2.5 million in total, while Biden’s recipients owed just under $700,000.

In June, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee released a memo criticizing the president for potentially depriving victims of compensation they are owed and depleting funding for the Victims of Crime Act. The memo accused Trump’s pardons of “undermining public safety at every turn.”

Trump's pardons forgive financial crimes that came with hundreds of millions in punishments

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I don't think this is a question anymore, but a fact.

Everything depends on evidence not speculation. Collect copies of the documents then sue him.

16 minutes ago, Purdey said:

Everything depends on evidence not speculation. Collect copies of the documents then sue him.

Incorrect. We are not in a court of law here, we are on an online forum and speculation is what we do. 99% of what's on this forum is based on opinions and not legal documents.

Of course a supporter will always simply default to "it can't be true because you don't have proof", but that doesn't really mean anything to those of us who know who and what the man is. A lifelong grifter and fraudulent criminal.

So why wouldn't he be making money on the pardons? And why is he only pardoning people with vast amounts of wealth? Work that one through on your own.

16 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

And why is he only pardoning people with vast amounts of wealth?

This is not correct, also the people he is politically aligned with are entitled to a pardon. This the January 6 rioters.