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I do.

And he was let free in February.

That's one category, you know, there's political allies and potential political allies.

A second is just the rich, people who have committed just base white-collar fraud.

In addition to Camberos, a guy named Trevor Milton, who is an electric truck entrepreneur, who is convicted of defrauding his own investors by effectively faking that his trucks worked when they didn't.

He cut one video with them in neutral, so rolling downhill, so it looked like they were actually driving.

And maybe most significantly, a really important guy named Changpeng Zhao, who is the founder and head of the crypto exchange Binance, the biggest crypto exchange in the world.

He's one of, by Forbes' estimate, the 30 wealthiest people in the world.

And he'd been convicted of effectively making it possible for people to launder money on his exchange.

So money laundering was

conviction.

And significantly, he had, just prior to his pardon, conducted a massive deal where he underwrote Trump's family's crypto coin, which has been estimated as giving them a value of more than a billion dollars.

So

You know, that's the second category, just like base white collar fraud, a fair amount of Medicare and Medicaid fraudsters in there.

And then you also have some random famous people thrown in on the back end, like Darryl Strawberry, the former Mets baseball star who was convicted of tax evasion and later became an evangelical preacher.

President Trump has gone to bat for Darryl Strawberry, pardoning the Mets legend for his tax evasion conviction from 30 years ago.

A real figure from my own childhood, six foot six, really elegant right fielder, and be a young boy, the rapper.

So, you know, there's a grab bag, but there are still these kind of buckets you can identify.

There's not a formal process.

But the Wall Street Journal, the political reporting website Notice, others have documented a really extensive lobbying effort where lobbyists, people close to the president, are taking millions of dollars from the families and allies of people in prison to try to get their name before the president.