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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

How Donald Trump’s pardon wave is ‘normalizing corruption’

In May, Department of Justice pardon attorney Ed Martin declared “no MAGA left behind.”

Within the first year of his second term in office, after campaigning on ending what he called the “politicization” of the Justice Department under his predecessor, Donald Trump has issued a historic number of pardons for white-collar criminals and political allies accused of fraud, bribery and corruption.

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