“Donald Trump has reportedly said he will issue pardons en masse to his closest advisers at the end of his second presidency”

“‘I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval [Office],’ the president reportedly said in a recent meeting”

“Another source had said Trump used the line in an earlier conversation, but with a smaller radius: he said he would pardon anyone who came within 10ft of the presidential office”

“Other sources claim Trump has floated hosting a news conference at the end of his term where he will announce mass pardons”

“The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said: ‘The Wall Street Journal should learn to take a joke. However, the president’s pardon power is absolute’”

“Since starting his second presidency, Trump has granted clemency to more than 1,800 people”

“On his first day in office, Trump gave unconditional pardons to 1,500 people who had participated in the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack”

“A Trump-appointed federal prosecutor recently had to ask a judge to deny a dismissal request from a man accused of planting two pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national committees the night before the Capitol attack”

“The man said his charges should be cleared because of Trump’s widespread pardons of those involved in the attack – and that his charges are ‘inextricably and demonstrably tethered’ to the riots”

“Trump in October pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, who had been sentenced to four months in prison after he pleaded guilty for not maintaining an anti-money laundering program”