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Nov 6 2025
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The moves continued a pattern of Trump, a Republican, using his second term to bestow unlikely pardons on political allies, prominent public figures and others convicted of defrauding the public.
Trump pardons former Tennessee House speaker convicted of federal public corruption charges
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