Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, is among several January 6 defendants who have been charged with new crimes since Trump's sweeping act of clemency for Capitol rioters. On his first day back in the White House last year, Trump pardoned, commuted prison sentences for or ordered the dismissal of cases for all 1,500-plus people charged in the attack.
The proposal follows President Donald Trump's pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and seeks to eliminate what Khanna calls "blatant corruption" at the intersection of politics and crypto. "The pardon of Zhao is corrupt," Khanna said on MSNBC. "You've got a foreign billionaire engaged in money laundering and financing terrorism, who supports the president's son's cryptocurrency firm, and then the president pardons him. This is corruption in plain sight."
As you know, that's a very contentious issue. Would you want to see Ghislaine Maxwell pardoned or would you want the opposite? Johnson replied, I would never even consider it. I mean, she's a convicted human trafficker. She was a party to this, she set it up by her own admission, she was involved in all this. There's no way she should ever leave prison.
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected an argument that a presidential pardon for January 6th defendants could provide a refund of restitution payments.
Suge Knight predicts Sean Diddy Combs will receive a presidential pardon from Donald Trump if found guilty of sex trafficking, citing a favorable government relationship.
