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'60 Minutes' exposé shocks as viewers ask how it 'made it past' MAGA-coded Bari Weiss
CBS News head Bari Weiss at a conference in Idaho in July. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
The Pardon Power Has Become a Private Tollbooth
Clemency Without Scrutiny
A 60 Minutes investigation found Trump-connected brokers quoting pardon seekers fees as high as $3 million, while roughly 70 percent of President Donald Trump’s second-term clemency actions reportedly bypassed the Justice Department’s traditional review process. The central scandal is not that influence peddlers discovered presidential clemency. It is that the White House created conditions in which access appears more valuable than…
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