What did Donald Trump claim about law on 5 Jun 2026?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
Do you know that I pardoned a man last week who was sentenced to seven years in jail because he got caught fixing his car or his truck?
No such pardon is on record. Trump's only clemency grant from mid-February to June 4, 2026 went to Stephen Buyer for securities fraud, and no Clean Air Act offender he pardoned got more than 12 months and one day.
The Justice Department's list of Trump's clemency grants shows no grants between February 12, 2026 and June 4, 2026, when the only pardon went to Stephen E. Buyer for securities fraud, and the longest prison sentence of any Clean Air Act offender on the list is 12 months and one day (DOJ Office of the Pardon Attorney).
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- Roundtable on agriculture in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
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