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Trump Signs More Pardons, Freeing a Fraudster for the Second Time

Among the recipients of President Trump’s pardons were a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC and a woman granted clemency in his first term who went on to commit fraud again.

In 2021, a convicted fraudster named Adriana Camberos was freed from prison when President Trump commuted her sentence.

Rather than taking advantage of that second chance, prosecutors said, Ms. Camberos returned to crime. She and her brother were convicted in 2024 in an unrelated fraud.

Their pardons were among a handful of clemency grants quietly issued by Mr. Trump on Thursday and Friday.

Among the other lucky recipients: a man whose daughter had given millions to a Trump-backed super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico and a former F.B.I. agent — all of whom had pleaded guilty in a political corruption case.

The pardons, most of which have not been previously reported, were supported by people with close ties to Mr. Trump’s orbit, including lawyers who had worked for him.

They continue a trend in which Mr. Trump has used the unfettered presidential clemency power to reward allies and those who have paid his associates or donated to his political operation. The approach stands in contrast to Justice Department guidelines that prioritize the clemency applications of people who have completed their prison sentences or demonstrated remorse and a lower likelihood of recidivism.

The pardons, several of which forgave white-collar crimes and frauds by affluent perpetrators, strike a discordant note with the Trump administration’s announcement that it was suspending federal funding for programs intended to serve poor people in Minnesota in order to root out fraud.

Oh, a bit ironic isn't it?

So much to hate about Trump but the corruption he is infusing into our government and culture may be as bad as anything he's done.

Sickening.

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Among the recipients of President Trump’s pardons were a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC and a woman granted clemency in his first term who went on to commit fraud again.

And, if anyone calls him on it, his usual response is to claim ignorance, say that someone said these people should be pardoned, so he pardoned them, without knowing anything about them or what they did. After all, the "rogue underling" defense has worked so well for Jamie Dimon, over the years.

For those who missed it, while Dimon was claiming total ignorance of what goes on at JPM, he had a $770M payday last year, dwarfing the $80M payday he had a few years ago, that drew a blistering rebuke from shareholders.

JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon reaps ‘$770M’ windfall in 2025: report

https://nypost.com/2026/01/05/business/jpmorgans-j...

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MAGA the lawless and disorder party

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Trump’s transformed the presidency into a den of corruption...
Just wire $1 Million to the Trump PAC, and presto: your sins are absolved!
2,000 pardons deep, and the moral bankruptcy index has never been stronger.
As for the "law and order" Republicans?
You can almost hear them buffing their badges of hypocrisy to a patriotic shine!

MAGA!

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