User:CmdrDan/Explainer: Uploading Trump Pardons and Commutations

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I was stunned to discover only a very few of the vast number of Trump's pardons existed on Commons.

So I set out to ensure Commons contained an exhaustive collection of these documents.

First stop the White House.

Reviewing the News section of whitehouse.gov you see they have a Filter by Issue feature that allows anyone to filter by thirteen (13!) issues!

  1. Budget & Spending
  2. Economy & Jobs
  3. Education
  4. Energy & Environment
  5. Foreign Policy
  6. Healthcare
  7. Immigration
  8. Infrastructure & Technology
  9. Land & Agriculture
  10. Law & Justice
  11. National Security & Defense
  12. Social Programs
  13. Veterans

Wow.

Searching the White House website for "pardon" I get 115 results; the first of which is from Aug 25 2020: Remarks by President Trump Granting a Full Pardon to Alice Johnson. The order seems to be random as the second hit is dated Aug 28, 2020 and the third is from Aug 18, 2020--the fourth hit is Oct 10, 2019!

The first page of my results are nearly all "STATEMENTS & RELEASES" whatever that


After finding: Remarks by President Trump Granting a Full Pardon to Alice Johnson

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