Trump issues series of pardons for politicians, a union leader and a rapper
May 28, 2025
President Donald Trump has issued a new series of pardons, awarding them to a former New York congressman, a Connecticut governor, a rapper known as “NBA YoungBoy,” a labor union leader and a onetime Army officer who flaunted safety measures during the coronavirus pandemic. Trump also commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader serving a life sentence. Trump’s actions mixed his willingness to pardon high-profile Republicans and other supporters, donors and friends with the influence of Alice Marie Johnson, whom Trump recently named his pardons czar after he offered a pardon to her in 2020.
