Donald Trump, pardon
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Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has utilized pardons and commutations to address what he has deemed injustices dealt by the justice system. A pardon essentially forgives a crime and its consequences — a conviction is wiped from the person’s criminal record,
President Donald Trump has issued an unusually large number of pardons and commutations in his second term, moving much faster than most modern presidents.[1]
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted by a U.S. court last year on charges that he ran the Central American nation as a “narco-state” that helped send South American cocaine to the United States,