Three former advisers to President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign pleaded not guilty Tuesday to felony forgery charges in Wisconsin, as the state's Democratic attorney general pressed forward with a prosecution that has survived two years, a change in presidential administration, and federal pardons issued by Trump himself.
President Donald Trump granted a full pardon Friday to former Rep. Stephen Buyer, a Republican from Indiana convicted in 2023 of insider trading, clearing a man who served as a House prosecutor at Bill Clinton's impeachment trial and who his supporters say was targeted by political adversaries.
President Trump posted a letter he received from former Republican National Committee Chairman Robert James Nicholson on Truth Social surrounding a request to pardon former Indiana Congressman Stephen Buyer (R).
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche pledged before a Senate committee Tuesday that the Justice Department will not recommend a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker who worked alongside Jeffrey Epstein.