Trump didn’t even make the top ten in the oldest newspaper in America’s history list of controversial pardons.
- HEAVY has a state-by-state list of Obama’s pardons and commutations/clemencies.
- And of course Slick Willy’s list via SOAPBOXIE and the SPECTATOR.
PEW RESEARCH has some numbers:
Despite a burst of pardons and commutations in his last hours in office, Donald Trump used his executive clemency power less frequently than nearly every other president since the turn of the 20th century, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Justice Department data.
Trump granted 237 acts of clemency during his four years in the White House, including 143 pardons and 94 commutations. Only two other presidents since 1900 – George W. and George H.W. Bush – granted fewer acts of clemency than Trump.
His predecessor, Barack Obama, granted clemency 1,927 times over the course of eight years in office, the highest total of any president going back to Harry Truman. Obama’s total was skewed heavily toward commutations (1,715) instead of pardons (212).
Yeah. Trump stands head n shoulders above almost all the rest.