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New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Believe There Are Grounds to Impeach Trump (truthout.org)

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Democratic Party leadership has largely downplayed the idea of impeaching the president should they win in the midterms.

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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

oh how could I forget, the pardons:

January 6 defendants (mass pardon, January 20, 2025) Roughly 1,500 to 1,600 people received blanket clemency, most as full pardons, 14 (including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders) as commutations. Named individuals include:

Stewart Rhodes (Oath Keepers founder)
Enrique Tarrio (Proud Boys)
Jeremy Bertino
Thomas Caldwell (initially commuted, pardoned two months later)
Edward Jacob "Jake" Lang
Guy Reffitt
Emily Hernandez

Fake electors plot (Proclamation 10989, November 2025) 77 people pardoned, including:

Rudy Giuliani
Mark Meadows
Sidney Powell
Jenna Ellis
Kenneth Chesebro
John Eastman

Family / personal ties

Charles Kushner (Jared Kushner's father; pardoned in Trump's first term, 2020, for tax evasion and witness tampering)

Crypto / business associates

Changpeng "CZ" Zhao (Binance founder, pardoned for crimes tied to money laundering and sanctions evasion)

Donors and political allies (fraud/financial crime convictions)

Trevor Milton (Nikola founder)
Julio Herrera Velutini (foreign billionaire, bribery charges)
Timothy Leiweke (Oak View Group CEO)
Julie and Todd Chrisley (reality TV personalities)
Brian Kelsey (former Tennessee state senator)
Imaad Shah Zuberi (venture capitalist, illegal foreign lobbying)
Marian Morgan (Ponzi scheme operator)
Jason Galanis (securities fraud, commutation)
Devon Archer (defrauded Oglala Sioux Nation)
Adriana Camberos and her brother Andres Camberos (mail and wire fraud)
Joseph Schwartz (nursing home fraud)

Political corruption cases

Rod Blagojevich (former Illinois governor)
Rep. Henry Cuellar (bribery indictment)
Rep. George Santos (commutation)
Tina Peters (Colorado county clerk, state-level pardon, had no federal effect)
Wanda Vázquez Garced (former Puerto Rico governor, bribery charges)
Glen Casada and Cade Cothren (Tennessee public corruption case)

Other ones

Michele Fiore (former Las Vegas councilwoman)
James Womack (commutation; son of a sitting Republican congressman)
Five former NFL players: Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry, and the late Billy Cannon (posthumous)