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These pardons follow a trend for president trump. he likes to pardon supporter, high profile ones. he also seems to like pardoning people facing issues he knows something about. we saw this when he pardoned former sheriff joe arpaio, a huge trump fan, who was convicted of contempt of court in a case related to racial profiling. conservative pundit dinesh d'souza who compared trump to lincoln also got a pardon. he pleaded guilty to illegal campaign donations, a charge that hits home for this president. and then there was scooter libby, the scooter libby pardon, the former dick cheney's chief of...