A Trump pardon is a Monopoly "get out of jail free" card.
The card is not free. When it comes to plausibly pay-for-play pardons, Trump in his second term makes Bill Clinton and every other president look like pikers. Trump's second-term pardons and sentence commutations have wiped away more than $2 billion in fines and restitutions.
Queried by 60 Minutes in October 2025 as to why he had just pardoned Changpeng Zhao—the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, who had already served four months in prison and had his company pay $4.3 billion for money laundering—Trump said: "I have no idea who he is."
The 47th president has serially exceeded the most infamous corruptions in U.S. history while generating a fraction of the outrage.
Queried by 60 Minutes in October 2025 as to why he had just pardoned Changpeng Zhao—the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, who had already served four months in prison and had his company pay $4.3 billion for money laundering—Trump said: "I have no idea who he is."
The 47th president has serially exceeded the most infamous corruptions in U.S. history while generating a fraction of the outrage.
