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struggle4progress

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Wed Jan 21, 2026, 09:59 PM 18 hrs ago

New list of pardoned fraudster friends in Trump Criminals tracker

Jan 21, 2026

SACRAMENTO – As President Trump continues to baselessly accuse states like California of “massive fraud,” Governor Gavin Newsom today updated a public tracker with new information showing who Trump is actually protecting: convicted fraudsters, campaign finance criminals, and corrupt political operatives granted presidential clemency.

The tolerance for fraud is so entrenched in Trump’s government that we are calling on some of the best self-proclaimed independent investigators, Nick Shirley, Benny Johnson and Nick Sortor to investigate the MASSIVE FRAUD that seems to have been swept under the rug by the president.

The refreshed website — Gov.ca.gov/TrumpCriminals — establishes a public record of some of Trump’s worst clemency actions, allowing anyone to see which criminals the President has chosen to free, and for what crimes. The list includes criminals convicted of fraud, tax evasion, securities fraud, campaign-finance violations, Medicare and Medicaid fraud, public corruption, and conspiracy to defraud the United States, among other crimes.

Donald Trump is the personification of fraud. His hypocrisy knows no bounds: he is pardoning people convicted of fraud, corruption, and abusing the public trust — while turning around and using ‘fraud’ as a launching pad to go after political rivals. While his administration hands out get-out-of-jail-free cards to real fraudsters, the federal government is now trying to intimidate and target California with baseless allegations of ‘massive fraud.’ The rule of law isn’t a political weapon — it’s a promise, and we won’t let it be twisted to settle score ...

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/21/trumpcriminals2/

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