Experts say many of his pardons follow a pattern of rewarding people popular with his supporters.
, urging voters to support his position on illegal immigration.
Critics questioned the timing of the pardon, which came in April 2018, as the investigation led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian meddling in the 2016 election was escalating. Trump was already calling the inquiry a “witch hunt.” Trump issued a rare posthumous pardon to the African American boxer, saying his conviction in 1913 came during a time of “tremendous racial tension” in the U.S.
Fox News host and Trump confidant Sean Hannity and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas championed pardoning D’Souza.: “D’Souza was, in the president’s opinion, a victim of selective prosecution for violations of campaign finance laws.”
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