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Forget The DOJ. For A Trump Pardon, Call 'Bobby' And Other Influencers
Trump's pardon process now relies on personal networks, discarding over a century of protocol overseen by the Justice Department.
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - Days before granting him a pardon in March of last year, President Donald Trump phoned Trevor Milton, an electric-vehicle entrepreneur and Republican donor who was convicted of defrauding investors of more than $660 million.
The president, according to previously unreported details of the conversation reviewed by Reuters, told Milton that high-profile advisors convinced Trump that Milton had been unfairly prosecuted by the Justice Department of President Joe Biden . Among those who put in a good word, Trump said, was U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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