Eighteen holes were all it took for President Trump to break with his Justice Department’s pursuit of fair prices for live event ticket purchasers.

Former prosecutor and GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy, after playing a round of golf with Trump on November 16, brought up a client of his that he claimed was being unfairly treated, according to sources of The Wall Street Journal.

Three weeks after that round of golf at Mar-a-Lago, Trump, 79, granted a pardon to Gowdy’s client, entertainment businessman Tim Leiweke.

The pardon, issued on Thursday, stomps on the Justice Department’s “airtight” case against Leiweke, 68, for allegedly rigging the bid for a $375 million basketball arena built for the University of Texas in 2018. It also hampers a separate civil case the Justice Department was pursuing t

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