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President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned 11 people, including a former business partner of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and nine people identified by the White House as having helped people bypass emissions control systems on vehicles.
Trump pardoned people convicted of Clean Air Act violations who he said were "persecuted by the Biden Administration" and punished for "fixing their car."
The president claimed six of those pardoned were persecuted for simply "fixing their car" in a post on Truth Social.
As the Trump administration pulls back from enforcing diesel emissions laws, the president says the pardons are just common sense.
Trump granted full pardons to six people, calling the prosecutions "weaponization." The people granted clemency have not yet been identified.
Diddy gets shut out of Trump's pardon list again, leaving the music mogul to serve his full sentence without presidential intervention or clemency.
President Donald Trump has taken an increasingly personal role in the government’s clemency process, wielding pardons aid his allies and advance his own political grievances.A Reuters investigation found that 96% of Trump’s second-term clemency grants have gone to recipients who didn’t fulfill longstanding DOJ guidelines for such requests.
Sean "Diddy" Combs poses with now-President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. Trump is discussing granting clemency to Combs, CBS News reported based on anonymous sources, and will have a meeting Friday afternoon to discuss potential pardons for Combs and a number of other people.
Mackenzie Spurlock pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act. Sen. Dan Sullivan celebrated the pardon, saying the devices don't work in cold climates.
