Trump was not content to leave to Bill Barr his mission of reversing prosecutions of his friends. The president spent much of February 18, a day when the global coronavirus death toll topped two thousand, issuing formal forgiveness to those he saw as fellow victims of official persecution. The recipients were a rogues’ gallery of celebrity felons and rich Republican insiders with connections to the president who jumped the line ahead of fourteen thousand other petitioners whose requests for clemency were languishing at the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney. Trump had come to
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