If there's one thing Donald Trump loves about his job, it's probably the ability to dole out pardons, given how much he's flexed this power since he was first elected president. Just one month into his second term in office, Trump shot up to second place on the leaderboard for the most presidential pardons handed out in modern U.S. history, just below Harry Truman.

By the end of November 2025, Trump had granted clemency to nearly 1,800 individuals with no signs of stopping . The majority of those were controversial pardons given to around 1,500 people who were convicted or charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. However, it's not just rioters who have been granted full clemency. The businessman-turned-politician has also pardoned quite a few high-profile

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