Donald Trump promised to be the "law and order" president. He broke that promise when he started freeing criminals like a psychotic villain in Gotham City. The Trump pardons this term are made up of white-collar criminals and drug dealers.
He began his term with his first act: the pardon of roughly 1,500 of the people who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
He continued with the pardons: the man who ran the world's largest drug-trafficking operation, two D.C. cops convicted in a murder cover-up, an MS-13 kingpin, a sitting U.S. congressman charged with bribery, a former president of Honduras (who also murdered someone in prison) serving 45 years for cocaine trafficking, and 77 people who plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
That's not the whole list — just the highlights.
The former Honduran president smuggled more than a ton of cocaine into the U.S., and said he wanted to “shove the cocaine up the Gringos’ noses.”
Trying to keep all of it straight in your head is impossible — which is exactly the point. When the pardons come in waves of dozens at a time, the names blur together. The sheer volume becomes its own kind of cover.
So we built a tool to cut through it.
The Trump Pardons Tracker
The Trump Pardons Tracker is a searchable, filterable record of every pardon Trump has granted in his second term. You can:
- Search by NAME — type "Cuellar" or "Chrisley" or "Hernández" and pull up the entry instantly
- Filter by CRIME — see just the violent offenders, just the drug traffickers, just the corrupt politicians, or just the Jan. 6 defendants
- See the RECEIPTS — every entry includes the date, the conviction, the sentence Trump erased, and the dollar amounts if restitution was waived
We add context where it matters — which governor, what scheme, who the money was supposed to go to — but the underlying facts are the government's own record of who walked free.
The data comes directly from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Pardon Attorney, the federal agency that reviews and processes petitions for executive clemency, including pardons and commutations.
Because this information originates from an official government source rather than a secondhand or unofficial database, it can be considered authoritative and reliable.
Why Does it Matter Who Trump Pardons?
Every pardon is a choice. Every commutation tells you what this administration sees as worth protecting, whose interests it values, and whose transgressions it’s willing to overlook.
These decisions reflect priorities, alliances, and a calculation of who deserves mercy and who doesn’t. Then again, some of the Trump pardons paid in advance, so that made the decision easy for the president to make.
When you look at the full list in one place, the pattern is unmistakable: wealthy fraudsters, political donors, loyal sheriffs who sold their badges, and people who tried to keep Trump in power after he lost in 2020.
The hypocrisy isn't subtle. It's the whole point.
Meanwhile, the people his administration calls "criminals" — the asylum seekers, green card holders, foreign students, people here under temporary protected status (TPS) — get bulldozed by ICE raids and shipped to El Salvador (or another third country) with no due process.
Don’t forget the other groups Trump and Steven Miller have in their sights for “punishment”: Left-wing “terrorists,” Antifa, and protesters who have ended up — in the case of the Minnesota ICE protesters — sentenced to 50-100+ years in prison.
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We're keeping the database updated as new pardons are issued. The next time someone tells you Trump is "tough on crime," send them the link.
PARDON TRACKER