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Facebook posts stated on January 20, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Former President Joe Biden “pardoned Michael Byrd.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• January 23, 2025

Threads posts stated on December 02, 2024 in a video:

Video shows Fox News host Jeanine Pirro criticizing President-elect Donald Trump.

By Ciara O'Rourke• December 10, 2024

Newt Gingrich stated on May 10, 2009 in a television interview:

Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."

By Angie Drobnic Holan• May 13, 2009

Donald Trump stated on December 02, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

Any pardon signed with an autopen is now "fully and completely terminated, and is of no legal effect."

By Louis Jacobson• December 4, 2025

Ted Cruz stated on June 04, 2018 in an interview:

Says "Rosie O’Donnell apparently committed the same offense five times, five times, when she broke the identical law that Dinesh (D'Souza) was prosecuted for."

By Manuela Tobias• June 6, 2018

Roger Stone stated on October 31, 2021 in a Gab post:

“There are over 1 million phantom voters on the Florida voter rolls.”

By Amy Sherman• November 3, 2021

Stephen Miller stated on October 24, 2025 in an interview:

“To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 29, 2025

Donald Trump stated on March 17, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

Former President Joe Biden’s pardons of lawmakers on the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack “are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” because “they were done by autopen.”

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• March 17, 2025

Mitt Romney stated on December 17, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa.:

Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."

By Bill Adair• December 28, 2007

Instagram posts stated on December 04, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“Trump was impeached for trying to investigate all the crimes that Joe Biden just pardoned Hunter over.”

By Loreben Tuquero• December 6, 2024

Joe Biden stated on December 01, 2024 in a statement:

On pardoning his son Hunter Biden

By Louis Jacobson• December 2, 2024

Threads posts stated on December 02, 2024 in a post:

Former presidents George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter issued pardons to a son and brother, respectively.

By Gideon Hess• December 5, 2024

Katie Pavlich stated on August 26, 2017 in in a tweet:

Says former President Barack Obama "pardoned a traitor who gave U.S. enemies state secrets, he also pardoned a terrorist who killed Americans."

By Manuela Tobias• August 30, 2017

Facebook posts stated on October 02, 2022 in a Facebook post:

In Texas, a person can register a dead relative to vote and then cast a mail ballot in their name.

By Amy Sherman• October 17, 2022

Donald Trump stated on October 31, 2022 in an interview:

Former President Jimmy Carter said “don’t ever use” mail in ballots because “they can be so easily corrupted.”

By Amy Sherman• November 4, 2022

Donald Trump stated on February 05, 2018 in a speech near Cincinnati:

At the State of the Union address, Democrats, "even on positive news … were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, ‘treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not?"

By Louis Jacobson• February 6, 2018

Joe Arpaio stated on August 25, 2017 in a tweet:

Says his conviction is "a political witch hunt by holdovers in the Obama justice department."

By Jon Greenberg• August 29, 2017

X posts stated on June 11, 2024 in in X posts:

Hunter Biden’s trial and conviction were contrived to divert attention from Biden family crimes.

By Jeff Cercone• June 14, 2024

Donald Trump stated on November 25, 2018 in a tweet:

Says of immigrant family separations at the border, "we had the exact same policy as the Obama administration."

By Miriam Valverde• November 29, 2018

UndergroundNewsReport.com stated on February 28, 2017 in an Internet post:

"Man pardoned by Obama three months ago arrested for murder."

By Joshua Gillin• March 6, 2017

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